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
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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