Beyond Intent: Crossing the Threshold to Your Dreams

In that sense, the tower promises empowerment. It is there, after all, that our heroine practises a magical embroidery her labores , which eventually enables her to flee to the mountain depicted in the final panel. It is only when one escapes that the individual search emerges. So far, the first instalment of the triptych sets the scene for a narrative of spiritual journey. It is from the alembic that the heroine draws the thread with which she eventually plots her escape from the tower, for she stitches a secret rendezvous with a lover into the unfolding world below, thus taking control of her own life.

She is thus literally weaving her own destiny. In this particular representation of weaving, a mythic feminine cosmovision is both assumed and surmounted. But here at least one girl balks at the magical service, and shows that she has a mind of her own. Perhaps she does not wish to be under the dictates of the Great Master, as Kaplan suggests.

Perhaps she is a rebellious daughter uncomfortable with a Great Mother Superior or perhaps, as Quance suggests, she is a daughter who does not accept without irony the burdens of being a Mother Nature goddess And yet, her rebellion takes place within a forest, a place regarded as a feminine — or rather maternal — symbol Cirlot On the one hand the girl is moved to leave behind the Catholicism that loomed over her early schooling. But she is also following a path that is well known in many spiritual traditions, according to which a hero is twice born.

But Varo proposes a different resolution, one with a positive investment in maternal symbols that is typical of mysticism. She plots a love story in which the protagonist is the woman who rebels against illegitimate authority whether maternal or paternal in the name of self-assertion and growth. Once her alter ego escapes the homogeneous collective in the tower in Bordando el manto terrestre , where she was surrounded by girls who all look alike and are therefore not yet individuated , she joins a lover in the forest and the two of them embark on a journey as a couple. The promise of eros becomes one with the attainment of individuality and the birth of the self.

This can be read as a psychological process. But, at the same time, the coming together of the male and the female — especially as we see in the depiction of the lovers in the third panel — suggests a spiritual breakthrough. The union of opposites such as male and female represents the achievement of wholeness and balance: It is a sign that the desired goal is near.

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In the final panel of the triptych, La huida , the narrative concludes as we see our heroine, in the company of her lover, headed towards her destination, a grotto in the side of a heavenly mountain. The umbrella-shaped vessel echoes the sexual symbolism of the cavern towards which the couple travels. It also reflects the coming together of the male and female, for the umbrella can be both phallic, when closed, and yonic, when opened.

The use of their own clothing as a boat suggests their self-reliance and the power that has been gained at this point in their journey. Although the man appears to be taking the lead, it is the woman who steers. Thus they each perform a task that is essential to their progress while relying on the action of the other. Whereas the young woman fixes her sights on the goal, the young man looks beyond the mountain, as if not intent on where they are bound. Despite the clear outline of the figures, it is their interdependence which is emphasised, and they have been subtly joined as one.

Their differently coloured cloaks merge around their shoulders and they share a set of hands between them.

Coalesced in this way, they represent an unconventional image of the Androgyne, suggesting that the male or female must incorporate their missing half as part of the spiritual quest. Among the surrealists, the figure of the androgyne was of the utmost importance. It was the coming together of the sexes and represented a return to harmony, to the primitive unity that allowed for Sublime Love Orenstein 15; Haynes It has been argued that in surrealism the female part of this potential unity was reduced to the role of catalyst and fostered the full realisation of the male rather than the equality of lost halves Chadwick ; Choucha His quest is aimed at a way of being that exists beyond these dichotomies.

It is significant that this union of male and female occurs at the entrance of a grotto, for, as a host of scholars since Bachofen have observed, the cave is associated with Mother Earth in its chthonic aspect. Thus, when the lovers seek a haven inside the grotto, both sexes return to a divine ground which promises regeneration and rebirth Gimbutas ; Neumann However, as we have shown, the fullest reading of the hermetic symbolism in the triptych invites us to construe a narrative, retrospectively built, of spiritual quest and to see the female character as a liminar.

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