coexistence contrast (limited edition print) · Namibia · 2017

As the sun climbed the dune, so did we. And it came to me then, again, that all is contrast and contrast is all. All the arch opposites, born with the bang, were there before me – light and dark, hot and cold, the infinitesimally tiny and the infinitely vast. And so were their earthly cousins: left and right, day and night, up and down, life and death. At the seams, where they met, they lent meaning to one another. Their very existence depended upon it. Because everything, every thing in this space-time cauldron boils down to an essential juxtaposition, a molecular love-hate-bond with the other half. One constant temperature would be no temperature at all – we wouldn’t even have a word for it; an undetectable attribute can never become a perceivable concept, so no such thing can be a thing. To live was to balance between these extremes, to tiptoe along that ridge, a crest in this ocean of sand, where the particles always shift while the whole remains the same. But, as much as I understood the necessity of the other and the importance of balance, I wondered if there was always more of one than the other, as to not cancel each other out. And I believed then, that at the end of the day, there was always a little more light than darkness. Of course, this can only be true if something else is false.
 
 
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