"KOI the Unstoppable Momentum"

ART/PAINTING Title: "KOI the Unstoppable Momentum"

Art Medium: MURAL PAinting

Size: 100" x 100"

Carp were considered a symbol of strength. Koi are constantly swimming upstream and against the current because of this their image is used to represent strength, independence, perseverance, ambition and good luck.

 

The fish is symbolically employed as the emblem of wealth or abundance, on account of the similarity in the pronunciation of the words fish, and superfluity, and also because fish are extremely plentiful in Chinese waters. Owing to its reproductive powers it is a symbol of regeneration, and, as it is happy in its own element or sphere, so it has come to be the emblem of harmony and connubial bliss. As fish are reputed to swim in pairs, so a pair of fish is emblematic of the joys of union, especially of a sexual nature; it is also one of the charms to avert evil, and is included among the auspicious signs on the Footprints of Buddha. "The fish signifies freedom from all restraint. As in the water a fish moves easily in any direction, so in the Buddha-state the fully-emancipated knows no restraints or obstruction." 

The carp, with its scaly armour, which is regarded as a symbol of martial attributes, is admired because it struggles against the current, and it has therefore become the emblem of perseverance.