Mutual Arising 91 cm x 91 cm
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Acrylic on canvas paper. 91 cm tall by 91 cm wide. This piece is not framed.
Painted on sustainably sourced canvas found at a thrift store, this is a painting of my yoga teacher whom I studied with while in Bali, Indonesia. It is inspired by the paradox of opposites.
The vivid world around the subject is my visual interpretation of the invisible realm. It could also be explained as yin energy, dark matter or quantum particles. Warm colors, in contrast to the cool colors of the material world, express juxtaposition between the two parts of the painting. Other opposites worth noting are the lamp and the darkness behind his closed eyes, and the organized lines of the material world vs the organic shapes depicting the unseen world. I used saturated hues to explore the “thisness” of the meeting of the opposites..
The concept of mutual arising explains that opposites inform one another. By contrasting, they create one another. Up can not exist without down, light without dark, and so on. The sleeping yogi is representative of the dark yin energy of our subconsciousness, in contrast to the bright world of yang energy in which we see with our waking eyes.
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Acrylic on canvas paper. 91 cm tall by 91 cm wide. This piece is not framed.
Painted on sustainably sourced canvas found at a thrift store, this is a painting of my yoga teacher whom I studied with while in Bali, Indonesia. It is inspired by the paradox of opposites.
The vivid world around the subject is my visual interpretation of the invisible realm. It could also be explained as yin energy, dark matter or quantum particles. Warm colors, in contrast to the cool colors of the material world, express juxtaposition between the two parts of the painting. Other opposites worth noting are the lamp and the darkness behind his closed eyes, and the organized lines of the material world vs the organic shapes depicting the unseen world. I used saturated hues to explore the “thisness” of the meeting of the opposites..
The concept of mutual arising explains that opposites inform one another. By contrasting, they create one another. Up can not exist without down, light without dark, and so on. The sleeping yogi is representative of the dark yin energy of our subconsciousness, in contrast to the bright world of yang energy in which we see with our waking eyes.
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Acrylic on canvas paper. 91 cm tall by 91 cm wide. This piece is not framed.
Painted on sustainably sourced canvas found at a thrift store, this is a painting of my yoga teacher whom I studied with while in Bali, Indonesia. It is inspired by the paradox of opposites.
The vivid world around the subject is my visual interpretation of the invisible realm. It could also be explained as yin energy, dark matter or quantum particles. Warm colors, in contrast to the cool colors of the material world, express juxtaposition between the two parts of the painting. Other opposites worth noting are the lamp and the darkness behind his closed eyes, and the organized lines of the material world vs the organic shapes depicting the unseen world. I used saturated hues to explore the “thisness” of the meeting of the opposites..
The concept of mutual arising explains that opposites inform one another. By contrasting, they create one another. Up can not exist without down, light without dark, and so on. The sleeping yogi is representative of the dark yin energy of our subconsciousness, in contrast to the bright world of yang energy in which we see with our waking eyes.