Video: Chinese paper art by Xinyu Zhang
Nov. 25, 2006, KUAT/PBS Evening News

Mutual Contradiction: the world of the white and the black

The world consists of contradictions and co-existence. Per ancient Chinese philosophy, "Yin, representing the lunar or female,  and Yang, representing the solar or male, depend on each other and disagree with each other. They together created the world." The white and the black are twins in a universe of contradictions and co-dependence.

The white represents the life and brightness, while the black represents the death and darkness. Through the white we see the life. Through the black we see the death. The life and the death kiss each other and object each other. The brightness and the darkness fight against each other and also embrace each other. The contradictions co-exist in everything and everywhere. This is the world in where we live, and the message that my installation art presents.