Duality of Man

2021

Spray-painted Buddha sculpture, mixed media (flowers, bullets, cigarette butts)

49.5 x 19 x 19

$11,500

This piece is a paradox in perfect stillness. A sacred sculpture turned mirror-one that doesn’t reflect your face, but your soul.

“Duality of Man” takes the tranquil image of the Buddha and confronts it with the truth: peace is not born from perfection. It’s born from struggle, contradiction, and the quiet war we fight within ourselves every day.

One side of the Buddha is painted black with white hearts, the other white with black hearts—a visual mantra echoing the ancient wisdom of Yin and Yang. Light lives in darkness. Darkness lives in light. We are both. Always. The symmetry isn’t just aesthetic-it’s a cosmic truth.

She cries on both sides of her face.

Black tears from white skin. White tears from black skin. Compassion and pain. Beauty and violence. Innocence and experience. These tears are not of weakness-they’re acknowledgment. A sacred weeping for all the chaos that’s been witnessed… and survived.

The flowers scattered across her body offer softness, vulnerability, hope. In her lap are

Bullet casings and cigarette butts.

Symbols of trauma. Whether external or internal. But they’re not thrown away. 

They’re held gently. Like a prayer. Because in this piece, even the ugliness has a place. Even the weapons become offerings. Even your past is held with love.

The Buddha sits calm, grounded, unshaken-not because she’s untouched by the world, but because she’s transcended it.

This sculpture It is the embodiment of balance. A reminder that divinity doesn’t mean perfection. It means wholeness. And wholeness means owning everything. The joy. The violence. The healing.

The hurt.

You don’t need to erase your past to find peace.

You just have to sit with it.