The Eight Dragon steps, Dai Nam. Print

Pencil, acrylic, hot press. East Asian philosophy about dragons has a much different meaning than in the west, In the west the dragon has wings to fly and in the east it flies without wings. in china the dragon represents wind in the sky but in Vietnam it is the river. but in general they represent the flow of life. There are stories where the river dragon learns to fly through pure will in order to eat the moon/magic medicine cake, this is also loosely related to the moon cake at Tet and the story of the man reaching the moon to get back his ascended wife. there is also another where the wife mistakenly desecrates the sacred tree and then sits upon it. She is then lifted up onto the moon and left there as punishment. This all then connects back to the dragon by way that the dragon is also representative of the man. And the woman the as the fire Phoenix who sits in the tree of life only to be scared off by the advancing dragon. The Phoenix fleeing is a symbol of a heavenly body traversing the sky (can't remember off hand if it was the moon or the sun). there is another story where the dragon Metamorphosis from a carp into a dragon.

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:10 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:15.25 W x 15.25 H x 1.2 D in

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