Cobie

Righto, I am nullifying all my previous posts in this thread, and voting for

@liminal_luke Yes, I like that. Well done!

Ok Just expressing how I feel about it. No worries (as I said before) I will be fine with whatever the admods decide.

Love it, making the heart shape. Especially with white swans. Fat chance getting that through though, Daoism is the way of Yin but this forum is mostly overheated Yang style.

My Chinese teacher (from Beijing) says all this stuff is to be taken with a pinch of salt, the same way the West takes the Western zodiac. Like Harry Potter’s Draco Malloy is the mascot for this ‘year of the fire horse’ in China. It’s all make believe for fun.

Any symbol for peace.

I love the idea. I like the horse. Maybe someone could also make a ‘brush art’ image of 火 to go with it? Then combine the two for the banner. 火 (huo3) fire 馬 (ma3) horse

Indigenous traditions.

Not “everyone’s”. His work is despised by many, including me. I think it is of the utmost importance to distinguish between good and evil.

@old3bob The Deesis Mosaic of Hagia Sophia Istanbul.

@old3bob Depictions with smiles are a fairly recent phenomenon. Smiles were seen as for fools only. The rich, powerful and the holy were depicted looking sober, to show their earthly or spititual authority.

Fandango

The serpent is the penis. Sexual reproduction. Integrating soul and body.

We have two brain halves. It takes 2 vantage points to create perspective. Neither. You are the soul that oversees the two brain halves.

Early Buddhist art was aniconic. Buddha in human form began to appear in the 1st century AD, under the influence of Hellenistic culture (the "archaic smile").