Why not left and right?
Why not up and down?
Why not high and low?
Why yes and no?
Why not sadness and happiness?
Why not soup and salad?
Why not coffee and tea?
Why not catch and release?
Why not sink and swim?
Why not fly and fall?
Why not buy and sell?
Why not short and tall?
Why not listen and talk?
Why not him and her?
Why not lady and boss?
Why not spicy and posh?
Why not hungry and happy?
Why not love and hate?
Why not mommy and daddy?
Why not fail and rate?
Why not near and far?
Why not from and for?
Why not more and less?
Why not health and sickness?
Why not life and death?
Why not death and life?
Embedded in the sculpture and patently manifest even in this working model, located at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto as part of their permanent exhibition, is the duality of the promised Nuclear Age ahead. With Jetsons-like capability and Hiroshima-like terror inextricably intertwined, it was a time of can-do optimism and McCarthyistic fear. Nubile yin atop deformed yang. A melted human visage beneath the steeled helmet of progress. A void crying for help – mutely – like a voiceless apparition. Creation and destruction. The newfound ability to reach higher towards the heavens, never forgetting the explosiveness of new power. Like Icarus with a bomb vest. Soaring towards self-detonation. Because he must. Because we must.
~Moi
At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.
~Ludwig Wittgenstein
Birth and death are of the physical world. They are put of the duality that surrounds us — light and dark, heat and cold. But energy can never be created or destroyed; it transforms from one form to another. Energy is in essence, non-dual.
~Bhagavad Gita
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