This is
my latest mandala creation, using both compass and free form, expanding into
something colorful for the Spring Equinox… I did not make a final circle around
this one, but simply left it unconfined, leaving little openings for emergence
and expansion – like Spring! I will
admit I am more of a monochromatic type person – liking to use different shades
and gradients of the same color. But
hey, one needs to expand their horizons right! :) I am experimenting with color and light, and some new techniques -
feeling a bit stuck in the design process; probably due to a lack of imagination. :) I feel like I have reached a "dead end" of sorts already, although I’m just
beginning, not knowing where to go next, needing a cartographer/teacher to help fill in the
gaps of my unknowing. So I am attempting to learn from
the many masters of mandalas by osmosis. :)
Speaking
of which, there is a wonderful website page of *beautifully* designed luminous
mandalas by Prema. Her work is a
wonderful inspiration. Another luminous
mandala master is Judith Cornell – now deceased – relating mandalas to our
spiritual path of awakening. Her book,
Mandala, arrived Monday – loaded with luminous mandalas. I need to spend some time reading, and
experimenting!
Through this creative experience so far I am reminded that life, art, and the “spiritual path” are an ever unfolding awareness and expression
of our Infinite Being within, only needing our willingness to be open - without
preconception of where it “should” lead, or what it “should” look like. That’s a hard one! I have all kinds of ideas and images of what
life and “the path” – and my art is *supposed*
to look like, and of course it doesn’t always turn out the way I had in mind. :) It’s more like the cycles of nature, we continuously rebirth a new consciousness,
a new way of being, seeing, and creating - awakening to the Life *in*
everything; allowing that bud of Light within to blossom and express its
Aliveness…
”Now is the time
for you to compute the impossibility
that there is anything but Grace.
Now is the season to know
that everything…
is sacred.”
Hafiz
~
Other luminous masters of
mandalas :)
Stacy Wills – A Magic Mom and Her Mandalas
