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Bridge Triptych

These are the three panels of a triptych. Each panel is shown in greater detail on the following pages. The theme of the triptych is the meeting of East and West, or the two aspects of the human psyche, out on a slender bridge with no handholds. We also have another layer of meaning inasmuch as the psyche is                expressed through the brain in physical life. Thus, we have the two hemispheres of the brain seeking balance on a neural bridge hidden in the dark vault of our skull.  The left and right sides of the brain can also rightly be called temples as their sides form the literal temples of our heads. More cryptically, the bridge is the third eye  wherein we contact the Amrita Nadi.

The motif of the bridge speaks to the need to reconcile the dualities in  life. It takes daring to be out in the middle of life seeking balance and so often we retreat to the the guarded fortresses at either end of the bridge, or to one of the temples on either side of life. The left side is the cerebral and Western while the right side is the abstract and Eastern. The key to crossing between the many dualities which exist in the middle of the psyche is balance. To not have balance is to be in conflict. It is to lack confidence out in the unguarded middle of life where one needs it most.