Duality

I had previous touched briefly on one of my more recent projects I did on existence and duality. It is an artist book that translates natural elements into human emotions. It deals with opposites in nature together with opposites in personalities. It gives nature a human identity. I am interested on expanding on these ideas in a later work, so I want to expand on it through this blog.

The book itself consists of 24 pages and is divided into two sections: dualities and trinities. The dualities consist of two elements opposite in nature parallel to each other (light/darkness, fire/ice, air/earth, water/lightning, plant/metal, sand/mist). These objects are similar in one aspect, but opposite in another. The second part deals with trinities (bone/blood/flesh, sun/moon/stars, time/space/void.

The purpose of the book is to show that nothing can exist without its opposite. At the end, the last page is void, which is the absence of time and space. Since everything exists in time and space, the entire book becomes the opposite of void. The book proves that in order for something to exist, nothing must also exist because everything must have an opposite.

My obsession with existence probably has much to do with me growing up in church. I find the subject of existence very interesting. I often find it creeping into my work, even when I don't intend it to. All of my work can be traced back to religion. It is very important to me in my life so I suppose it's only natural that I make art about it.