Impossible to plan in advance

watercolor, 50 x 70 cm

Well, I do plan before which image I shall upload and write about. And yesterday I choose three paintings about the reunion of the two polarities.

It was not that easy. There was only one! (if I don´t count a carpet). 

Perhaps I painted this one some ten years ago, I don´t remember and it is too much fuss to take it out and see if I have put the year on it. What I do remember is that I got surprised and a little scared when I saw what I had painted.

So much pain! Still! (By that time I had not yet discovered Tantra.)

My intention had been to show how "heaven" and "earth" at last had melted together.

What a disappointment! 

Using the story of Adam and Eve as a metafor, I had a theory that inside every human being there is a great pain and sorrow as a result of having been throwned out from the Garden of Eden. One could say that this symbolical event was the starting point for the  cleavage between man and woman, between masculine and feminine, the differences between the left and right brainhalves, between ying and yang ... 

I know, I know! My reasoning can meet many objections .... it doesn´t matter. For me it has served for doing my paintings and I have my creative liberty to explain whatever I want with the words I want to. 

And using Adam and Eve as symbols for the old-time man and woman has served me a lot during many years of inner journey.

And of cource I have many textiles and paintings with Adam and Eve. They will come later.

And of cource I continue my traveling ...