For seminal psychologist Carl Jung, “individuation” is a healthy process of self actualization akin to peeling away the layers of an onion. The objective is to clarify and differentiate the individual self.
 
Husband-and-wife collaborators Sherry Tompalski and Graham Thompson apply this metaphor beautifully in WRAPPINGS, a three-act multidisciplinary project launched in late September at Ottawa’s Electric Street Studio (229 Crichton Street).
 
In Act 1, shown September 20 to 26, the collage and oil-on-canvas works chronicled the wrapped woman’s rush “to get started,” says Tompalski, wherein she hastily marries a gorilla who is a vet from WWll.

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