“The Greeks observed a paradox about the dyad: while it appears separate from unity, its opposite poles remember their source and attract each other in an attempt to merge and return to the state of unity. The dyad simultaneously divides and unites, repels and attracts, separates and returns.”

- Priya Hemenway, Divine Proportion

 

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Physical interaction is important, especially in our overly-connected-yet-somehow-more-disconnected age. In this, Sum’s second issue, we wanted to present to you a selection of interesting, and sometimes unlikely pairings.

             The simple, yet simultaneously complex, duality of a relationship between a daughter and her ailing father.

             Mind versus body.

             Mind over matter.

             Heart-warming;

             -breaking.

             The idea that one animal’s death is right, while another’s is a mistake. Two loners, united in their unexpected moment of regret.

             The strangeness of a man who just won’t leave the land of the living, no matter the extent of a child’s violent fancies.

             That well-trodden border crossing from innocence and inexperience to adulthood and sexual awakening.

             Love and sex.

             Life and death.

             Murder and love.

             Imagined and real.

             Hands entwined, a duo, a partnership, tantamount to the branches of a tree.

             The remembered, the forgotten;

             The only child, the second born.

             Continuous and broken lines.

             Symmetry /\  asymmetry |\

             Everywhere you turn, it waits for you. Innocence, experience. Paradise, fall.                        That connection, harmonious or conflicting, between two points.

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             Welcome to Dyad.