I Ching or Book of Changes: Symbolic Landscapes contains the images of sixty four paintings of each of the hexagrams, along with the translation of each decision, images and lines. There is a brief guide in how to use the I Ching by tossing three coins and finding the number of the corresponding hexagram on a chart.

The I Ching or Book of Changes: Symbolic Landscapes contains images of the paintings made of the sixty four hexagrams of the I Ching. Included are a translations of the decisions, images and lines by Brian Arnold. Over the period of six years, I cast three coins to determine by chance which hexagram to paint next. I found visions, dreams and my surrounding landscape of northern Vermont contributing to the realization of each painting, enabling me to search close to home for powerful symbols. Included is a brief section on how to use the I Ching by tossing three coins and discovering the correct hexagram's name and number on a provided chart. Each painting has a page and next to it is the hexagram with its decision and image, as well as the lines, printed next to it.

Inspired by the I Ching or Book of Changes, Elizabeth Nelson embarked on a project of painting the sixty four hexagrams, chosen in random order by throwing three coins. She contemplated the resulting answer and searched for an image in her mind, incorporating chance into the procedure. After six years in the making, the series was completed, and they were placed in numerical order, although painted in a random sequence. The paintings are 20" square, oil on cradled birch panels.

As her work has always referenced the northern landscape this series continues that exploration, but with an interior dimension of symbols and geometric juxtapositions. The I Ching is an ancient divination system, with a suggestion for right action for each situation. It has a history of more than two and a half thousand years of commentary and interpretation. From 1000 BC until 200 BC it was transformed into a cosmological text with philosophical commentaries. It is read throughout the world, providing inspiration to the worlds of religion, psychoanalysis, business, literature and art. It is also a book of wisdom. One who knows the meaning of change knows the immutable, eternal law at work in all change, the principle of the one in the many. Thus change is perceived as the continuous transformation of one force into another and as a cycle of connected phenomena subject to the universal law, Tao. Everything is connected. In discerning the seeds of things to come, we can foresee the future as well as to understand the past. Elizabeth Nelson was born in New York City, graduated from Rhode Island School of Design and received a master's degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. When she moved to her farm in northern Vermont she became part of the working landscape starting with ten heifers and ending with three hundred cows twenty seven years later. All through this time she has always made paintings. She has shown in many venues in Vermont, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, New York and Massachusetts, and is represented in galleries and permanent private and public collections in Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon and California. Two residencies in Iceland and one in Vermont were important for her work. She has won two Vermont Public Art commissions for a total of eight paintings and her work is part of the Vermont State Art Collection.

Brian Arnold had made an app for the iPhone "Yi Jing" using his own translation of the I Ching. He has included these painting images in his program and now his translation of the I Ching has been used for this book.