Mixed Media on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.
Signed on the back.
Do a silly dance for the audience, amore.
Do dichotomies truly exist? Perhaps what we see as black and white is a plethora of shades that are neither. Is ice always white? Is white always clean? Is black truly the absence of colour? If it the absence of colour, is it also the absence of heat? Dichotomies, or perceived dichotomies, are everywhere -
Good vs bad
Black vs white
Night vs Day
Light vs Dark
Hot vs Cold
Nature vs Technology
Science vs Art
Spirituality vs Practicality
Imagination vs Logic
Rich vs Poor
We are fed information via dichotomies from a very young age, as a way to categorise the world we live in and dictate, or explain, human behaviour. Only as we grow do we realise that things are more complex than simply a world of opposites. Contradictions live alongside each other, often bleeding into each other. When the needle swings to the other side, what happens during the momentum? Is any dichotomy truly real, or are we just living between the extremes of darkest and lightest greys?
Even the yin and yang symbol has a drop of its opposite inside each half. On planet earth, our little corner of the universe, we live and play and exist in all the shades of dark and light. Only deep in outer space can we find a true black – a total lack of light, and a true white – a combination of all visible colours. Even in the starkest of contrasts we can find that perhaps things are not as black and white as they seem.