Writing, Styling, Art Direction by Elizabeth Donohue | Published by Blush
We live in a society of extremes: wealth-poverty, social media-real life, male-female, Democrats-Republicans… the list goes on. When things fall on polar-opposite sides of the spectrum, it’s difficult to imagine that they can ever co-exist. “Divided,” is the term often used to describe the state of our country, but I have a problem with that. To divide is to chop, split, carve up, and does not allow for a spectrum to exist in the way that the term, “duality” does.
The ancient Chinese philosophical principle of yin and yang states that all things exist as inseparable and contradictory opposites. The same concept is applied in Newton's law of attraction states that every reaction has a reaction, that opposites attract and that likes repel with an equal force.
Yet, collectively we are finding out that things are not black and white; there is a spectrum that allows gray to exist. Duality not just about how things differ, but ways in which they merge, as well.
du·al·i·ty
noun
1. The quality or condition of being dual.
2. An instance of opposition or contrast between two concepts or two aspects of something; a dualism.
synonyms: doubleness, dualism, duplexity, ambivalence.
“Absurdity and anti-absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.”
