The focus in my concentration piece will be cycles and duality. I was thinking along the lines of "Cycles of Rebirth", "Flow of Energy", and "Innate Duality". What I mean is that life has unusual ways of of repeating itself, and that everything is multifaceted. Hopefully the ideas and examples can explain it better.
... I need to figure out some examples for this.
- The whole "Life From Ashes" saying. This would show the cycle of life-death-life, as well as the duality of fire. Fire-elemental dog wolf thing running through grass that turns into fire. Behind it would be a longer patch of ash and then at the end a tiny sprout of a plant. Click for bigger picture.
- Similar to the idea above, would be fire as life and death. This would focus more on fire itself and fire as an inanimate thing that seems like it still has energy and life. It would be more about the heat, light, and movement from fire.
- The process of regrowth. I was thinking that it would be a city or some urban environment being retaken by plants. This could be seen as either life-death-life or death-life-death, depending on if one saw the city/urban area/man-made thing as being alive or not. I was thinking there could be more than one take on this. One could be of a city or house, and the other could be of a car or other machinery, both being overrun by plant growth. Another idea could be of a vine cracking a sidewalk, or weeds growing between cracks in concrete.
- Rain in the desert. Rain is another inanimate thing that still has life and can create life. In the desert it revives the dead ground into a huge flower-field. I was thinking the composition would have a cow skull, or animal of some kind's skull, having flowers growing up around it after or during rain.
- Similar to fire, there could be other elements that could be seen as having energy or life. Water or Wind could be one, or just a plant growing in soil. Another idea could be fire casting metal, but I don't know how I'd incorporate that into something I could actually do.
