Description

Title: Duality of Being

Date: April 2025

Dimensions: 140 x 70cm

Medium: Mixed Media (modeling compound, acrylic paint, epoxy resin, metal)

“Duality of Being” is an exploration of the fundamental contrasts that construct human consciousness. The work arranges existence into vertical layers – cosmic, emotional, linguistic, and elemental – each carrying its own polarity. The sun and the fractured moon, the blackened sky with its geometric shadows, the turbulent blue, the coded green field, and the burning red ruins below form a symbolic anatomy of the human condition.

Real chains cut across these zones, asserting a central truth:
nothing in life exists independently.
Every state is tethered to its opposite. Pain and joy, clarity and confusion, destruction and renewal – each gains meaning only through the presence of the other.

The locked cube suspending from the dark upper zone becomes a metaphor for the inner self, confined and leaking into the emotional strata below. The symbols in the green field evoke learned narratives and psychological patterns, while the red foundation hints at the remnants of past forms – the ruins from which new experience arises.

The work challenges the viewer to see contrast not as conflict, but as the architecture of being. Human experience is not linear; it is a chain of interdependent opposites. We feel deeply only because opposing forces create tension, texture, and weight.
Without darkness, light has no form. Without suffering, joy has no meaning. Without loss, nothing can be valued.

“Duality of Being” presents existence as a system of essential opposites – a world held together not in spite of contrast, but because of it.