Healing Hurts
“There can be no light without the dark.”
I love this quote by Horace Slughorn from the Harry Potter series, but countless similar mantras have been stated by philosophers, scholars, writers, musicians, and theologians. It is a perfect way to express how important tension and juxtaposition of contrary ideas and elements is necessary to find balance.
I have always been fascinated by the eastern philosophies regarding balance, which is most frequently depicted in the Yin and Yang. I took that concept and created two haikus to describe how perception can drive reality. The poems gave way to the idea of creating a Yin-Yang artwork that reflected negative and positive, light and dark, monochromatic and polychromatic, but all through a lens of swirling motion and change.
Making this art helped me heal from some very deep wounds, but now reminds me that the pain of hurting and the ache of healing are both part of the process . . . part of the balance of living.
“There can be no light without the dark.”
I love this quote by Horace Slughorn from the Harry Potter series, but countless similar mantras have been stated by philosophers, scholars, writers, musicians, and theologians. It is a perfect way to express how important tension and juxtaposition of contrary ideas and elements is necessary to find balance.
I have always been fascinated by the eastern philosophies regarding balance, which is most frequently depicted in the Yin and Yang. I took that concept and created two haikus to describe how perception can drive reality. The poems gave way to the idea of creating a Yin-Yang artwork that reflected negative and positive, light and dark, monochromatic and polychromatic, but all through a lens of swirling motion and change.
Making this art helped me heal from some very deep wounds, but now reminds me that the pain of hurting and the ache of healing are both part of the process . . . part of the balance of living.
“There can be no light without the dark.”
I love this quote by Horace Slughorn from the Harry Potter series, but countless similar mantras have been stated by philosophers, scholars, writers, musicians, and theologians. It is a perfect way to express how important tension and juxtaposition of contrary ideas and elements is necessary to find balance.
I have always been fascinated by the eastern philosophies regarding balance, which is most frequently depicted in the Yin and Yang. I took that concept and created two haikus to describe how perception can drive reality. The poems gave way to the idea of creating a Yin-Yang artwork that reflected negative and positive, light and dark, monochromatic and polychromatic, but all through a lens of swirling motion and change.
Making this art helped me heal from some very deep wounds, but now reminds me that the pain of hurting and the ache of healing are both part of the process . . . part of the balance of living.