Creation, Myth and the Chinese Zodiac

The exhibition “Creation, Myth and the Chinese Zodiac” was exhibited at Man and the Living World Museum, in Ramat-Gan, Israel. It displayed the all-inclusive range of the Chinese Zodiac, and brings together text and image to show the richness and depth made possible when these two media are made to work together. The exhibition sought to illustrate the theme that phenomena appear, change and disappear to pop up again elsewhere, in endless celebration. Nearly all human creation myths start with the motif of Chaos, the non-defined, non-limited. In one way or another human mythology sees Chaos as the source and bearer of the four formative elements of the Visible – earth, water, air and fire. The present exhibition attempts to ex