Illustration as a Meditation | Far East

My personal project for my non-commercial illustrations that I've made as study and experiment with techniques.

Once Zhuang Zhou dreamed he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn’t know he was Zhuang Zhou. Suddenly he woke up, and there he was, solid and unmistakable Zhuang Zhou. But he didn’t know if he were Zhuang Zhou who had dreamed he was a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming he was Zhuang Zhou.

Zhuangzi

In Chinese tradition Tiger representing the balance between yin and yang forces. As a spirit animal, the meaning for the tiger is said to be willpower, courage, and personal strength. The tiger also has other representations such as protections against evil spirits, wind, disease, and bad luck. It is believed that Chinese tiger bears on it's forehead the chinese character "wang", which means "the king".

Kintsugi 金継ぎ golden joinery, also known as kinsukuroi 金繕い, golden repair is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum, a method similar to the maki-e technique. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.

In Japanese mythology, this flying creature is a raven or a jungle crow called Yatagarasu (八咫烏, "eight-span crow") and the appearance of the great bird is construed as evidence of the will of Heaven or divine intervention in human affairs.

Ikebana 生け花, 活け花,  arranging flowers or making flowers alive is theJapanese art of flower arrangement. It is also known as Kado 華道, way of flowers.

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