'Murderer's House' - University of Victoria

you know this famous drawing, the circle of life? One side is black with a white point in
it and the other side is white with a black point in it. That means that even in the white is
something black and even in the black is something white. You understand? [H.S.-B.
draws the ying-yang symbol in R.R.‟s notebook].
R.R.: Yes.
H.S.-B.: I don‟t know whether you have studied this old Chinese philosophy, but the
thing is that I feel that our life today is too much influenced by the ideas of yang; the
bright, courageous, and the fighting existence. But in order to create harmony, there has
to be the dark side, the side of relaxing, reflecting, the Chinese would have said the
female side because it is also the side of creation. Out of the darkness comes the creative,
not out of the bright. You understand?
R.R.: Yes.
H.S.-B.: In my opinion we are too much in this [points to the yang] and we are forgetting
about this [points to the yin]. And this creates too much brightness, too much light, too
much noise, too much fight and too little reflection, too little time for reflection. I think
this is something that is about to destroy this planet. We all feel it, we call it the
Klimakatastrophe [climate crisis] but it‟s not only the Klimakatastrophe, it‟s also a
catastrophe going also inside human beings in their lives, in the way they live, in the way
they create their works. I told you about these two scenes, the May beetle and the flies.
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