| 9 Nov 2000 |  Dejan Brnic | Hm! I don't understand the message of this picture. Phoenix was a mythical bird that burned himself to death and another one arose from his ashes.. so he represents death and ressurection but I don't get the dragon that spews the water. And fire and water together are invincible, how?. They kill each other, they can't coexist. | |
| 16 Jan 2001 |  Cathy Waldman | Maybe the point is that fire and water *can* coexist in
the presence of the monk's mystical powers. Sort of
like anything is possible if you can just imagine it to
be so. I love this painting. The colors are so well
done that I can almost see the dragons twining around
the monk, can imagine them moving and getting bigger.
This would make a beautiful animation (though, really,
it already *is* animated through the power of your art,
Nili).  | |
| 15 Mar 2001 | wushu legend | In Ancient Chinese culture they used to SOMETIMES (not always) refer to males as Dragons and females as Phoenix's. The Phoenix in Chinese culture is different to the western Phoenix (which was a Greek myth). So in this pic the Dragon represents male (Yang) and the Phoenix represents female (Yin). | |
| 27 Nov 2001 | Anonymous | See Shakespeare's The Phoenix and the Turtle and consider also the ancient traditions of the Dragon as guardian. | |
| 15 Jan 2002 | Markus Krusberg | What? You've met a real Shaolin monk? No wonder this is the best monk picture I've found yet roaming after monks in Elfwood. Many monk pictures express more the outer power than the inner forces. In your picture the inner side behind the outer side becomes larger or stronger. Therefore the outer power doesn't have to be shown as an agressive stance or technique. | |
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