Digital Mandala
The Mandala (Muhn-dah-lah) is a dream from meditation, a pattern of life; it represents
the natural attempt to heal the self. With hatred, natural disasters and wars, happening
nationally and worldwide, I feel we, as humans, need more mandalas in our lives now
more than ever. Mandalas will guide us into a new identity beginning from within. They
represent what we are inside and help us to bring that idea forth revealing our personal
wholeness. Through meditation and concentration on the nucleus, the center, turmoil
from within can begin its repair. Allowing the person reflected on the outside to become
more comfortable, both to ourselves personally, and to those we meet on a daily basis as
we go about our lives.
What we see in the mandala is purely only what we see, each of us, individually. We all
see something different and the mandala effects us in different ways – our own eyes of
wonder throughout eternity. This idea being taken liberally from the title of a mandala
created by Miss X and Carl Jung – famed depth psychologist and mandala creator.
Indeed, Jung says the eye is the prototype of the mandala, the "Looking Glass of
Wisdom," quoting the 17th century German mystic, Jakob Böhme. "Our mandala is
indeed an 'eye,'" Jung continues, "the structure of which symbolizes the center of order in
the unconscious....” (1950; Collected Works, 9: Picture 8, pp. 335-37), hence, hitting the
infinity aspect of the mandala. If each of us sees a different mandala, through our
individual eye mandala (the eye is a mandala), and comes up with a different
interpretation – like a Mandelbrot – will it ever stop? Can it ever stop?
Following the dream, the battle begins within, and moves from there into the world
outside. The Mandala is the underused weapon to help with this battle. (In dreams,
imagination, paintings and spiritual experiences).
These Digital Mandalas represent my step in that continuing battle. They have come from
pictures taken with a digital camera and then manipulated into circular patterns using a
photo enhancing computer program – digitally re-mastered, so to speak.
I never pictured (so to say) myself an artist. However, throughout my life I've been
continuously told we all have an artist inside. I now feel I was just waiting for my
medium to come along – digital photography. These mandalas are presented in an effort
to help spread the word about the power of the mandala – my little attempt at taking a
step toward the reality of the dream and perhaps a recovery of human life?
Images are available for showing in the local Portland, OR Metropolitan area.
Digital Mandala images are available for purchase on Canvas with a wood frame, or glass
with a wood and wire frame in various sizes.
Canvas - 24," 20," 16," & 13"
To see images and for more information see the Available Art pages
the natural attempt to heal the self. With hatred, natural disasters and wars, happening
nationally and worldwide, I feel we, as humans, need more mandalas in our lives now
more than ever. Mandalas will guide us into a new identity beginning from within. They
represent what we are inside and help us to bring that idea forth revealing our personal
wholeness. Through meditation and concentration on the nucleus, the center, turmoil
from within can begin its repair. Allowing the person reflected on the outside to become
more comfortable, both to ourselves personally, and to those we meet on a daily basis as
we go about our lives.
What we see in the mandala is purely only what we see, each of us, individually. We all
see something different and the mandala effects us in different ways – our own eyes of
wonder throughout eternity. This idea being taken liberally from the title of a mandala
created by Miss X and Carl Jung – famed depth psychologist and mandala creator.
Indeed, Jung says the eye is the prototype of the mandala, the "Looking Glass of
Wisdom," quoting the 17th century German mystic, Jakob Böhme. "Our mandala is
indeed an 'eye,'" Jung continues, "the structure of which symbolizes the center of order in
the unconscious....” (1950; Collected Works, 9: Picture 8, pp. 335-37), hence, hitting the
infinity aspect of the mandala. If each of us sees a different mandala, through our
individual eye mandala (the eye is a mandala), and comes up with a different
interpretation – like a Mandelbrot – will it ever stop? Can it ever stop?
Following the dream, the battle begins within, and moves from there into the world
outside. The Mandala is the underused weapon to help with this battle. (In dreams,
imagination, paintings and spiritual experiences).
These Digital Mandalas represent my step in that continuing battle. They have come from
pictures taken with a digital camera and then manipulated into circular patterns using a
photo enhancing computer program – digitally re-mastered, so to speak.
I never pictured (so to say) myself an artist. However, throughout my life I've been
continuously told we all have an artist inside. I now feel I was just waiting for my
medium to come along – digital photography. These mandalas are presented in an effort
to help spread the word about the power of the mandala – my little attempt at taking a
step toward the reality of the dream and perhaps a recovery of human life?
Images are available for showing in the local Portland, OR Metropolitan area.
Digital Mandala images are available for purchase on Canvas with a wood frame, or glass
with a wood and wire frame in various sizes.
Canvas - 24," 20," 16," & 13"
To see images and for more information see the Available Art pages
| “There are times in the life of a human being where a rift divides the world of ‘before’ from the world ‘after.’ Nothing is as it was before. Unbearable moments, bare of all sense of orientation, in which our very existence and even our own selves are called into question. Moments where chaos is all around us and it seems that we have nothing to ward off the dark.” Bailey Cunningham Mandala: Journey to the Center |
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