During the last two years I have studied "I Ching" or "Book of Changes." It is the oldest and greatest Chinese classic and became the foundation of the Taoist and Confucian philosophies.
The main idea of "I Ching" is the continuous changes and transformations of all beings expressed by a system of archetypal symbols, called the hexagrams.
I look at this system of hexagrams through the prism of Chaos Theory. For better understanding the meanings of hexagrams I created 64 collages applying my own photographs of nature.
Hexagrams reflect all human situations as a sequence of continual transformation from chaos to order (self-organization) and an order is replaced by new chaos (self-disorganization), and this goes on. The idea of the transition from one kind of order to another through a state of chaos is developed in the process of self-organization.
I analyze in details some hexagrams like: "Fellowship", "Humility", "Grace", "Love", "Family", and "Happy Union" and describe them as dissipative structures.
The hexagrams: "Resolving Order", "Disintegration", "Dispersion", "Revolution", "Conflict", and "Oppresion" are the chaotic states.
Some hexagrams like: "Break-through", "The Turning Point", "The Shock", "Progress", and "Transition" can be described as bifurcation points or self-organized criticality where the system spontaneously develops into a critical state and minor perturbations lead to a qualitative change of behavior.
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