PONYICZKI
For several years, I’ve been exploring the idea of the unconscious through my work. Early on, with the support of a Jungian analyst, I began by mapping my own inner world through dreams. The imagery that surfaced became the source for my Figurative Dreamscapes.
Over time, my focus shifted outward, looking at how society shapes and sometimes distorts identity. This led to the Humanoids: faceless, shapeless figures that reflect a more stripped-back sense of self, shaped by external pressures and internal fragmentation.
I became particularly interested in Carl Jung’s idea that the symbolic language of the unconscious is shared across cultures and time. My research moved into older visual languages: alchemical manuscripts, ancient artefacts, and creation stories. From this, I began to develop my own visual language—a growing library of biomorphic, hybrid symbols, combining elements from ancient sources with imagery from my own dreams.
In the Dream Carpets and Imaginary Landscapes series, I began weaving together personal and collective memory, letting symbols connect and shift across the surface.
My most recent works, Ancient Stories, continue this direction, drawing on creation myths and early forms of image-making. These paintings are imaginary landscapes of memory and the collective unconscious. They create spaces where fragments of ancient knowledge fill the air, where something familiar but hard to name begins to surface.




