“Duality” ORIGINAL and Prints

“Duality” 36w x 36h Oil on Canvas

When looking up into the sky on a starry night, one can see the Tree of Life, or the River of Life spanning across the sky as an arm of the Milky Way. Just as on an African savannah split by such a river, on one side is the lion (the constellation Leo), and on the other side of the river is the water buffalo, or cow, or ox (Taurus). Born enemies, one predator and the other prey, but both natural and essential, these two constellations in their celestial setting express duality as understood by the ancients. The Leo side represents spirit, or heaven, and the Taurus side represents matter, or the earth. Also contained in this split is male and female, light and dark, freshwater and seawater, life and death, above and below. This is the original setting for the Garden of Eden from Genesis as well as John’s War in Heaven. Their turning away from the other into this state of nature is The Fall. Subsuming nature by embodying matter with a more refined spirit was the purpose of religion.