Yin Yang IX is part of the 'Just-Us' series.

Young is a direct descendant of a railroad worker and a slave girl.  Her father was one of Canada's earliest Asian workers who was granted Canadian citizenship in 1899.
Confederation was solidified by the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway system linking Canada from coast to coast.
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Asian settlement was not welcomed at the turn of the 20th century without the price tag in the form of a Head Tax which started at fifty dollars; then rose to a hundred dollars; then again to five hundred dollars.  Even the 'lining of Canada's Treasury' with eighty-one million dollars did not endear the first Prime Minister.  From 1923 to 1947, all applications from China were eliminated by the Exclusion Act.

In 1972 through the humanity of Canada's fifteenth Prime Minister (Trudeau) the re-union of those families was sanctioned.  The more fortunate came to meet fathers and spouses they had never known.  Others came to bury fathers and spouses they will never know.

Yin Yang IX symbolizes the positive and negative aspects of the emotional struggle.  Juxtaposing Eastern thought and Western design the 'IX' (nine) is a homonym in Chinese for 'longevity'.  The endless circle of the round tubular shape and the man made non-corroding stainless steel also represents eternal life.
In its entirety the open halves are a metaphor for...
hope,
eternity,
and harmony...
Hence - 'Never say die'
Just-us is an on-going narration of her family's long history in Canada.

For information please call 416.533.
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