Puer Aeternus
A meditation on the desire to keep childhood’s freedom alive.
Puer Aeternus looks for the figure of eternal youth in contemporary city life. Play, improvisation and openness to possibility appear beside drifting, refusal and the fantasy of remaining uncommitted.
Jung’s archetype is used as a lens rather than a diagnosis. The photographs do not label particular people as immature. They follow gestures and situations in which the promise of endless beginning becomes visible, from spontaneous performance to a resistance to settling into fixed roles.
The series keeps the archetype’s attraction and cost in the same frame. It asks when freedom from convention creates genuine possibility, when it becomes escape and why the city so powerfully sustains both.
