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The I Ching

I studied the I-Ching for a year, from January 2006 to December 2006. Almost every day, I immersed myself in the great wisdom, inherited from three thousand years of Chinese cultural history, contained in the I-Ching.

I then painted for seven months, from January 2007 to July 2007. Painting became a tool to better grasp the essence of each hexagram. The I-Ching is so deep that as I continued reading and meditating, I felt as if I could  understand less and less. Yet there were moments of grace during which I could feel my heart resonating with the mystery of his teaching. The I Ching is like a living being. I walked for a few months with this being. I share here the fruit of our relationship. The affirmations were written by me.

 

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Techniques

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Pigments

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Wood

66 oeuvres

  • Gathering Together, Massing

  • Work on What Has Been Spoiled, Decay

  • Oppression, Exhaustion

  • Pushing Upward

  • The Taming Power of the Small

  • Retreat

  • Preponderance of the Great

  • Return, The Turning Point

  • Opposition

  • Dispersion, Dissolution

  • The Receptive, Earth

  • The Gentle, The Penetrating, Wind

  • The Power of the Great

  • Grace

  • Diffuculty at the Beginning

  • Abundance, Fullness

  • Keeping Still, Mountain

  • Conflict

  • The Marrying Maiden

  • Enthusiasm

  • Approach

  • Before Completion

  • Splitting Apart

  • Standstill, Stagnation

  • The Taming Power of the Great

  • The Abysmal

  • The Clinging, Fire

  • Preponderance of the Small

  • The Wanderer

  • Youthful Folly

  • Development, Gradual Progress

  • Decrease

  • Corners of the Mouth, Providing Nourishment

  • Duration

  • Deliverance

  • Contemplation

  • Waiting

  • The Caldron

  • Biting Through

  • Revolution, Molting

  • Solidarity

  • Following

  • The Family, The Clan

  • Darkening of the Light

  • Limitation

  • Increase

  • Inner Truth

  • Influence, Wooing

  • The Well

  • The Joyous, Lake

  • Innocence, The Unexpected

  • Coming to Meet

  • Fellowship with Men

  • Pushing Upward

  • Conduct

  • Possession in Great Measure

  • The Army

  • After Completion

  • The Creative

  • Break-through, Resoluteness

  • The Arousing, Shock, Thunder

  • Modesty

  • Peace

  • Obstruction

  • Abundance

  • Progress