Balance & Harmony, 2003 12x16 Print $30.00 (shipping included)

Balance & Harmony - The Yin-Yang Symbol represents the ancient Chinese understanding of how things work. The outer circle represents everything, while the dark and light shapes within the circle represent the interaction of two energies, called yin (dark) and yang (light), which cause everything to happen. They are not completely dark or light, just as things in life are not completely black or white, and they cannot exist without one another. While yin would be dark, passive, downward, cold, contracting, and weak, yang would be bright, active, upward, hot, expanding, and strong. The shape of the yin and yang sections of the symbol actually gives you a sense of the continual movement of these two energies, yin to yang and yang to yin, causing everything to happen: just as things expand and contract, and temperature changes from hot to cold. I believe Balance and Harmony is a state of mind and if you choose to have the equilibrium of both, it is a choice you make in how you want to experience life.