This image came to the artist on a summer day, very vivid and clear: two horses, one black and one white, side by side, looking straight at us. As always, Staz Li took the idea to the canvas quickly, before it could fade or “run out of time.” The title and meaning appeared only later, during the painting process, as suddenly as the first vision: “Yin-Yang Horses.”
For the artist, the work speaks about the duality of existence. Black and white are not enemies here; they are two parts of one whole. Good cannot exist without bad, just as bad cannot exist without good. If life were only light, we would lose the ability to recognise and value it – there would be nothing to compare it with.
The two horses stand together as if they have accepted this truth. They do not fight each other; they coexist. The painting quietly suggests that we should not resist difficulties at all costs. Very often, challenges are simply a sign that something important is approaching – that great success or happiness may be waiting just ahead. “Yin-Yang Horses” becomes a reminder that both parts of life belong, and that balance is found not in removing the dark, but in learning to stand beside it.