May 28, 2006, colored June 4, 2006
©JAL
|
May 28, 2006, colored June 4, 2006
|
|
I've actually gotten back into the Benoist book. I've even made it to page thirty three. (Yes, just plain steaming progress, there!) But I didn't get very far before I wanted to create art again. The following statement about 'the play of opposites' got me to thinking of the eternal dance between Set and Horus. He's describing aspects of paganism here: "Here again, notes Alain Daniélou, 'there is no irreducible dualism, or real opposition, in the play of opposites that constitutes the field of our perceptions. Whether spirit and matter, consciousness and unconsciousness, inert and living, day and night, white and black, good and evil, or active and passive, it is merely a question of opposition between complementary and interdependent elements, which exist only in relation to each other.'" (page 27) "Complementary and interdependent" does describe the dance/dual of Set and Horus. They need each other, the push/pull they have against each other to define who each of them are. The balance is a dynamic, rather than static one. And so once again I have tried to depict Set and Horus in this eternal dance. The more I do these, hopefully the better they will get.
 The original black and white drawing...
|
 
 |
