Here's another thought for your Taoist side, RAZD.
An important feature of great art is
dynamism. The idea is to make a creative problem for yourself by setting up a tension of some sort in the work. You set opposite forces in conflict--symmetry and assymetry, order and chaos, bright and dark, consonant and dissonant, micro and macro, predictability and surprise, tradition and novelty--then resolve the conflict.
The most powerful resolutions in art are those that find a satisfying place for all the forces that have been set in motion. They are reconciled and integrated in a complete picture.
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Archer
All species are transitional.