Romana Ana

Why I don’t explain the symbols right away 🌿

The stories I tell you speak in symbols.

And symbols… they’re tricky.

It’s like explaining a joke. Once you dissect it, it usually stops being funny — and sometimes even the punchline gets lost along the way. When you take a poem apart piece by piece, all the lyricism evaporates. I remember that well from school.

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Maybe we share a collective unconscious, maybe we have a few archetypal drawers in common — but a story can unlock things you didn’t even know were there. And that’s exactly why stories are born. Why they come.

Sometimes all it takes is a single image, a feeling.
One solitary sentence that keeps circling in your mind. Like a grain of sand in your shoe — tiny, almost invisible, yet constantly nudging you to pay attention. We all know this: you simply can’t forget about a grain in your shoe.

What is the story telling you — and why is it telling you this?
The moment you discover that, the story stops being mine.
And becomes yours.

For a long time, I wondered whether I should comment on the symbols at all.
My favourite director, David Lynch, says that stories should speak for themselves — and that once they’re explained, the mystery evaporates.

But these stories of mine aren’t invented.
They came in silence, in images that found me on their own.
And so sometimes I feel it’s only fair to offer a small key.

But the key isn’t my interpretation — it’s your own.

With Symbolion and The City Without Stars, it’s a little different.
Those stories grew from seeds of visions that came to me, but were watered by my imagination, my questions, and my own perspective. And that’s perfectly fine.

Because the most important answers are always found within yourself.
Stories can only turn on the flashlight.
You’re the one who has to light your own way.

 

Thank you for visiting and I look forward to seeing you at my stories. 🍀

🎨 You can decode the symbolism of this painting on your own. What might the fox 🦊 and the other symbols mean? I’m willing to bet each of you will see something different in them.
And that’s perfectly fine.