Tag: Reflection

  • Mandala 2017

    Mandala 2017

    Mandala – “Bold by the River” 2017 This mandala is the only color piece I have created to date. Way back when art was my major, I enjoyed using acrylic paint. I figured I’d start painting color backgrounds and creating the mandala on top. Another plan came into fruition though, especially in regard to the…

  • Mandala 6/5/16

    Mandala 6/5/16

    6/5/16 – “Growth” Mandalas are circular designs that reflect the wholeness of the person creating them. According to Carl Jung, “a mandala is the psychological expression of the totality of self.” Jung a Swiss psychiatrist, discovered the significance of mandalas through his own inner work. “I sketched every morning in a notebook, a small circular…

  • Poetry

    Poetry

    Ah poetry… sweet release.

  • Complacency

    Complacency

    Her mind runs rampant, drawing circles in the serene water. She takes a moment to soak in her reflection, yearning for her heart to be tauter. She envelops herself in a familiar warmth, yet this warmth is not synonymous. Harmony had been found in days prior, feeling around, all that arrives is bleakness. The foolishness…

  • Hindsight is 20/20, right? (9 minute read)

    Hindsight is 20/20, right?  (9 minute read)

    Growing up, everyone always used the term “hindsight is 20/20,” to which I truly had no understanding about. I had a general grasp of the term, although I had yet to apply it. Life works that way sometimes, a concept is understood generally speaking, but it isn’t until that concept is applied in some way,…

  • Reflections of Past Affirmations (6-minute read)

    Reflections of Past Affirmations (6-minute read)

    Break the cycle of looking to the past, and enter the cycle of re-birth in order to create experiences and the life you wish to lead. (6 minute read)