Zahir

In the words of the Mongolian creation myth: There came a wild dog who was blue and gray and whose destiny was imposed on him by the heavens. His mate was a roe deer.

Thus begins another love story. The wild dog with his courage and strength, the doe with her gentleness, intuition, and elegance. Hunter and hunted meet and love each other. According to the laws of nature, one should destroy the other, but in love there is neither good or evil, there is neither construction nor destruction, there is merely movement. And love changes the laws of nature.

In steppes where I come from, the wild dog is seen as feminine creature. Sensitive, capable of hunting because he has honed his instincts, but timid too. He does not use brute force, but strategy. Courageous, cautious, quick. He can change in a second from a state of complete relaxation to the tension he needs to pounce on his prey.

And what about the doe?

The roe deer has the male attributes of speed and an understanding of the earth. The two travel along together in their symbolic worlds, two impossibilities who have found each other, and they overcome their own natures and their barriers, they make the world possible too. That is the mongolian creation myth: out of two different natures love is born. In contradiction, love grows in strength. In confrontation and transformation, love is preserved.