Violet Flame of Transformation

 

 

 

 I painted the canvas black and I did this because it represented for me the infinite space of being. After I meditated on the black I began to see a color and at he same time I was working with the meditation Violet Flame of Transformation during my Mandala course. As I meditated on this color I knew that the painting would be done on the black. When=n I started I felt that it would be circular and just started painting without expectations of the result. It was more energy I had all these violets on my palette as well as pinks and blues that I had mixed but mostly I mixed on my canvas as I went following my intuition until the painting was finished it is like an energy that will not let me stop until the painting is done. Luckily I had all day to do the painting with out stopping. Anyway afterwards I sat in front of it with just a candle and mediated on the center which I left black which drew me inward like infinite space. I sent the photo to my teacher and he said that he could also see images around the Mandala. I meditated on the images around the Mandala and this is when I saw the image of an owl and a woman. I took the images and did journeying around them and dialoged with them. They spoke to me the rest of the course was a many layered process and a powerful synthesis through many collage work faces of wise women that I created in clay, sketches of owls and the final work was the painting that I did which represents me as Wise Woman. This all began with my Mandala work which lasted a full year and powerful inner work and art in the course. My journey began in Resting in the Darkness...

Resting in the Darkness

   
                                                        Resting in the Darkness

New beginning ... emptiness ... release .... space of stillness .... nothingness .... intention present and yet inactive ... happy to wait on the universe, the will of God .... the die being cast through universal organics - essences - love, light, spirit, universality and potential ... dna abounds and what is meant to be is on the way ... no hurry all in own time .... taking time to rest now - be present and still and empty and knowing ... and rich with love and life and nothingness - open to all possibility and yet attached to nothing ... nothingness .. divine peace and love and warmth in the dark ... state of being .... in the darkness - warm and empty............ by Wendy Nash Mandala, Self discovery and Expression

A World in a Universal Drop of Water

 

A World in a Universal Drop of Water

 

 

 

As I reflected on this mandala it reminded me of looking at a drop of pond water

 

and seeing a whole invisible world brimming with life completely unaware of my existence. Am I the observer or the observed? The symbols also represent parts of me invisible yet living that I may not be aware of and there to discover. The passage that I love by William Blake came to my mind when I was reflecting on the mandala. (Fragments from "Auguries of Innocence" by William Blake

 

To see a World in a Grain of Sand

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand

And Eternity in an hour.

Mandala and the Self Art Process

 

 

                                                             Eye of God