Spirit Walk 2 by DarwinsMishap
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(Note: A continuation of Spirit Walk)
What gives life to life
. . . Therefore forms come to depletion but spirit never undergoes transformation; this is because when what undergoes no transformation responds to what is transformed, it will never reach an end even throughout one thousand alterations and ten thousand reversals. Undergoing transformations means returning to formlessness; not undergoing transformations means living as long as Heaven and Earth.
Now, the death of a tree is due to the fact that what makes it green leaves it. So how could the tree itself be what causes the tree to live? The same is true of the formlessness of what fills the form. Therefore, what gives life to life never undergoes death--it is what it gives life to that dies. What transforms the things never undergoes transformation--it is what it transforms that undergoes transformation.
Source: Huainan zi, chapter 7. Translation published in Fabrizio Pregadio, "The Notion of 'Form' and the Ways of Liberation in Daoism," Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie 14 (2004): 101.
Comments (10)
alltheoriginalnames
Nice lighting and shadowplay, and nice color pallette as well. Nice contrast with the sky through the window, helps balanc out all the black
Kuiski
yeah! a very cool work darwin! fantastic lady and atmosphere
thecytron
Xcellent render!
Heathcroft
Excellent character- expressive, and good detail and ligfhting. Well conceived and presented!
KatFeete
Really nice work on this one -- I like the lighting and pose, and you continue to have a remarkable eye for color. Lovely piece.
slaudi
fantastic done.
Cimaira
wonderful character and pose
Drakthar
Great lights... impressive face expression
zhaanman
Awesome setting and use of light and the style and look of the character perfect as the pose and the use of shadow!!
photostar
Love the shadow work in this.