I'm so intrigued by your mandalas. I would love to hear more about your mind-set as you create them. Do you plan one in advance, or simply create as you go? It seems so very contemplative.
Love seeing all the mandalas together like that. I clicked the photo and made it large and studied them. But did I miss something? Why is one of them cut out, so that where the mandala would be there is negative space. Is there a meaning?
Thank you so much, Robin, Colette and 37paddington.
Colette -- They all begin in the center with a Chinese character from the book Chinese Calligraphy: From Pictograph to Ideogram: The History of 214 Essential Chinese/Japanese. Everything else just unfolds mysteriously. They are all done with my non-dominant left hand. I am just as surprised as anyone else when they are finished. It fascinates me how different each one is. Carl Jung saw mandalas as an expression of one's self. Different aspects of me? Who I am on a particular day? There will be 53 of them because last spring I was given 53 pieces of 4 x 4 inch printmaking paper. Some of them are done in one sitting. Some aren't resolved for days.
"Believing that mandalas were archetypal forms representing the Self, or total personality, he referred to them as “archetypes of wholeness.” Jung discovered that dreaming of or creating mandalas is a natural part of the individuation process, and he encouraged his patients to create them spontaneously."
37paddington -- When I was working on that one, I was feeling angry and sad and scared. Something in me shifted in the process of drawing and something prompted me to fill the entire 4 x 4 inch picture plane, but once I had done that there was still no resolution. I cut the mandala out and created an open space, free of anger, sadness and fear, while still honoring those emotions. The Chinese character in the center is the word "hand."
How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? -- Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
Welcome to "37TH DREAM (RUMORS OF PEACE)".
The photograph currently at the top of my blog was taken from my porch before sunrise on October 29, 2023.
"OLD GIRL OF THE NORTH COUNTRY" (the earliest name for my blog -- http://oldgirlfromthenorthcountry.blogspot.com
) came to life in early December of 2006 so that I could post a 42-year retrospective of my paintings and drawings and through that action, create a new relationship with the day the man I loved returned from Vietnam in December 1970. For a while (sometime after spring of 2008, which is when he died) my blog was "TALKING 37TH DREAM WITH RAINBOW (RUMORS OF PEACE)". For a number of years, it's been "TALKING 37TH DREAM (RUMORS OF PEACE)." As of April 12, 2017 my blog was titled "37TH DREAM / TALKING 37TH DREAM (RUMORS OF PEACE/LOOKING UP)". Somewhere along the way it became 37TH DREAM (RUMORS OF PEACE).
To begin viewing the retrospective with narrative, scroll down to December 8, 2006, on this page:
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. -- Martin Buber (1878-1965)
It is only a little planet, but how beautiful it is.
-- Robinson Jeffers
The true end of a war is the rebirth of life; the right to die peacefully in your own bed. The true end of war is the end of fear; the true end of war is the return of laughter.
-- Alfred Molano
Enjoy every sandwich -- Warren Zevon (1947-2003)
Not in God's wilds will you ever hear the sad moan, "All is vanity." No, we are paid a thousand times for all our toil, and after a single day spent outdoors in their atmosphere of strength and beauty, one could still say, should death come — even without any hope of another life — "Thank you for this most glorious gift!" and pass on.
-- John Muir (1838-1914)
Philip Henslowe: Mr. Fennyman, allow me to explain about the theatre business. The natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. Hugh Fennyman: So what do we do? Philip Henslowe: Nothing. Strangely enough, it all turns out well. Hugh Fennyman: How? Philip Henslowe: I don't know. It's a mystery.
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That is such beautiful music. Thank you for sharing it and photos of your lovely mandalas.
I'm so intrigued by your mandalas. I would love to hear more about your mind-set as you create them. Do you plan one in advance, or simply create as you go? It seems so very contemplative.
Love seeing all the mandalas together like that. I clicked the photo and made it large and studied them. But did I miss something? Why is one of them cut out, so that where the mandala would be there is negative space. Is there a meaning?
Thank you so much, Robin, Colette and 37paddington.
Colette -- They all begin in the center with a Chinese character from the book Chinese Calligraphy: From Pictograph to Ideogram: The History of 214 Essential Chinese/Japanese. Everything else just unfolds mysteriously. They are all done with my non-dominant left hand. I am just as surprised as anyone else when they are finished. It fascinates me how different each one is. Carl Jung saw mandalas as an expression of one's self. Different aspects of me? Who I am on a particular day? There will be 53 of them because last spring I was given 53 pieces of 4 x 4 inch printmaking paper. Some of them are done in one sitting. Some aren't resolved for days.
"Believing that mandalas were archetypal forms representing the Self, or total personality, he referred to them as “archetypes of wholeness.” Jung discovered that dreaming of or creating mandalas is a natural part of the individuation process, and he encouraged his patients to create them spontaneously."
37paddington -- When I was working on that one, I was feeling angry and sad and scared. Something in me shifted in the process of drawing and something prompted me to fill the entire 4 x 4 inch picture plane, but once I had done that there was still no resolution. I cut the mandala out and created an open space, free of anger, sadness and fear, while still honoring those emotions. The Chinese character in the center is the word "hand."
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