Embracing Duality: The Dynamic Nature of Order and Chaos

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 5ft x 5ft
Creation Date: 2024
Collection: Organic Movement

Order and Chaos is a piece that arrived more than it was planned—born from motion, from texture, from letting go. At 5 feet by 5 feet, it’s an immersive oil painting that lives in the space between opposites: clarity and confusion, stillness and movement, structure and surrender.

The palette is simple—black, white, and gray—but the emotion is layered. Using twine dragged across a wet canvas, I allowed shapes to form without interference. The lines aren't drawn, they're discovered. The tension between control and release became the rhythm of the piece. The brushstrokes followed, carving out zones of calm and chaos, echoing the unpredictability of thought, mood, and memory.

This work isn’t meant to explain anything. It’s meant to be felt. Like the process that shaped it, Order and Chaos resists repetition—it can’t be recreated, not even by me. What emerged was not a composition I envisioned, but one I witnessed. That’s what I love about this kind of making: it surprises you. It teaches you something about how form can arise from feeling, how balance can exist even inside disorder.

I see it as a meditation on duality. The opposites aren’t at war—they’re in conversation. You can sense it in the movement of the twine, the push and pull of the paint. The more time you spend with it, the more it reveals. There’s no fixed meaning—only a quiet invitation to pause, look, and let yourself be drawn in.