The Mandala for Self Discovery and Expression
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Friday, April 12, 2013
Mandala Self Discovery and Expression
My mandala for this week. I used words from a quote which was a prompt for another art exercice. Also blogged: http:// |
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Mandala Second Stage Floating into the Light The Seed
The Mandala Self Discovery and Expression
Continuing the journey through mandalas: Growing from the Seeds
by Lizzie Bellottoin Art, awakening, connection, Creations, Expressive Therapies, ideas, Journals, mandala, Mid-week ponderingTags: art, art therapy, connection, creativity, Imagination, mandala, mid-week pondering, Religion and Spirituality, Sacred Geometry and Art, Visual
It is a superbusy time in life and also super exciting week 3 of this speacial journey through Mandalas…
I managed to get around my process while on the go and improvise even more!
The focus last week was on planting the seed and identifying with the seed ….
My first mandala last week started with a wonderful personal journey through childhood memories….It was time to play and let the seed take me through the process….The joyful seed was planted and sprouting shapes and patterns unfolded along with autobiographical memories and dreams….
The continuing evolving shapes of my recent mandalas intrigued me… even though I would read and try to start to work from a circle or get to that shape ….things would just take over most of the time…It’s such an adventurous journey and intuition is taking the lead and questions come later LOL:)
So I next I decide to take a cardboard shape I made and use it as the seed to explore evolutions and see what would happen…Incredible energetic scapes blurred out of my imagination and it was just so cool to venture down that road…The process of my evolution, the possibilities, my becoming….
And then again just being free to explore whatever resonates with me at the time…
The energy and the patterns and colors emanating from inner roads guided this other mandala…
This made me understand more about my unpredictable, asymmetric and unique shapes and forms that evolve and propagate outwards…Even though the journey starts within it opens up and connects outwards…
Well, I also wanted to explore the strong bound with nature and the organic elements…and try out new materials creating texture and surfaces to play and connect…It is time for sprouting, emerging, germinating connecting all elements….
The passion for mixed media anda little extravaganza joined the adventure:)
After pondering on nature and its magic, the infinite possibilities evolving into gardens and flowers….The magic happens from being hidden in dark soil and come out to the bright sunlight…..
Reconnecting and celebrating the journey of growth….
Transformation is a fantastic essential process of life that unfolds into new ways and offers different perspectives…the inside is still there nourishing and changing waiting to get to the surface and join the outside re-forming and re-emerging….
I guess my last mandala of week 3 was gathering all the different insightful experiences of the journey and the mandala brought them together in yet another interesting way….
Thank you artist & teacher Joy Hellman for this great adventure in your course on Mandala for Self Discovery and Expression…
Lizzie your mandala work has been so powerful and amazing I really appreciate your consistent "Work" and I love your art representing the seed... I know that the next stage the Spiral will be an incredible part of your continued mandala journey... I have posted your link in my Mandala blog ... thanks again for sharing. It is so very inspirational to me as well as everyone in the group... I am blessed that I trusted my guidance to create this course because of all of you who have trusted me as well as your inne rwisdom to take the journey. Joy
I managed to get around my process while on the go and improvise even more!
The focus last week was on planting the seed and identifying with the seed ….
My first mandala last week started with a wonderful personal journey through childhood memories….It was time to play and let the seed take me through the process….The joyful seed was planted and sprouting shapes and patterns unfolded along with autobiographical memories and dreams….
The continuing evolving shapes of my recent mandalas intrigued me… even though I would read and try to start to work from a circle or get to that shape ….things would just take over most of the time…It’s such an adventurous journey and intuition is taking the lead and questions come later LOL:)
So I next I decide to take a cardboard shape I made and use it as the seed to explore evolutions and see what would happen…Incredible energetic scapes blurred out of my imagination and it was just so cool to venture down that road…The process of my evolution, the possibilities, my becoming….
And then again just being free to explore whatever resonates with me at the time…
The energy and the patterns and colors emanating from inner roads guided this other mandala…
This made me understand more about my unpredictable, asymmetric and unique shapes and forms that evolve and propagate outwards…Even though the journey starts within it opens up and connects outwards…
Well, I also wanted to explore the strong bound with nature and the organic elements…and try out new materials creating texture and surfaces to play and connect…It is time for sprouting, emerging, germinating connecting all elements….
The passion for mixed media anda little extravaganza joined the adventure:)
After pondering on nature and its magic, the infinite possibilities evolving into gardens and flowers….The magic happens from being hidden in dark soil and come out to the bright sunlight…..
Reconnecting and celebrating the journey of growth….
Transformation is a fantastic essential process of life that unfolds into new ways and offers different perspectives…the inside is still there nourishing and changing waiting to get to the surface and join the outside re-forming and re-emerging….
I guess my last mandala of week 3 was gathering all the different insightful experiences of the journey and the mandala brought them together in yet another interesting way….
Thank you artist & teacher Joy Hellman for this great adventure in your course on Mandala for Self Discovery and Expression…
Lizzie your mandala work has been so powerful and amazing I really appreciate your consistent "Work" and I love your art representing the seed... I know that the next stage the Spiral will be an incredible part of your continued mandala journey... I have posted your link in my Mandala blog ... thanks again for sharing. It is so very inspirational to me as well as everyone in the group... I am blessed that I trusted my guidance to create this course because of all of you who have trusted me as well as your inne rwisdom to take the journey. Joy
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Violet Flame of Transformation
Thursday, March 14, 2013
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.
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