Mandalas are the way that I make sense of the world around and within me.  As an artist with a BFA in Sculpture, and later in life, a doctorate in clinical psychology, I am, at my core, a practitioner of depth psychology.  Consequently, I am motivated by the exploration of the deeper stories that lie within me and in each of us. My Mandalas are a visual narrative of my story.

 

While creating a Mandala, I experience the disparate parts of the unconscious, pre-conscious and conscious self, scrambling to have a voice inside the circle. The Mandala visually contains and organizes the chaos of desire.  My Mandala-Making allows me to follow the threads of my hopes, and depict my truth in any given moment. All of my Mandalas are simply visual, meditative, moments of my life now and remembered.