oil painting

Yin-Yang structures traditional Chinese thought. Although in rebellion with the history of his country, Elyn cannot escape these fundamental and age-old ideas. In China, even if this thought may have been slowly fading for some time in the name of a technical culture that would like to govern the understanding of everyday life, classical culture advocates the balance between these two breaths. Yin-Yang are inseparable. The sky is sun and the earth is clouds. The sky covers everything and the earth below carries everything. When the breath of the falling sky crosses the breath of the rising earth, then the creative fusion of all things occurs.

In this painting, Elyn dedicates the fusion between these two breaths, the Yin-Yang interaction. This encounter reminds her of the true meaning of life and soothes her.

Two Chinese characters sanctify this Taoist complementarity: 凹 (Āo, translatable into French as concave) and 凸 (Tū, translatable as convex). Chinese culture, particularly modest, will only speak of love between man and woman in the sense of this complementarity. As Heaven loves Earth and vice versa.