Just wrapped up another of my rockin’ Introduction to Roman Mosaics classes this weekend at IMA. The talented tessellari (those who make mosaics) riffed on ancient geometric patterns to create their own cosmic combinations. Loni played with changing up the...
Send a vibration of loving intention from your mind through your heart and into your hands. This is the essential seed of life. This is the momentum of creation. You are shaping things to come. Weave, write, garden, chop, stir, knit, knot, knead, sew, set, carve, dig,...
Serendipity is defined as ‘a seeming gift for finding something good accidentally’. That’s how I found Sarah Ann Greene. I’m not surprised. Those of us on the mandalic path are bound to intersect like a good Vesica Piscis. I was attending a...
I love connecting patterns through Circles. Don’t get me wrong – I love other shapes too, but the Circle is my BFF. I spend a lot of time seeking how the mood of today’s culture gets interpreted in this form. Maybe someday I will show you some of my...
Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon becomes abstracted yet again at the mercy of Marietta Ganapin’s hole-punch. Using a mezmerizing mandala form, Ganapin’s labor intensive methods of construction invoke the devotional practice of a monk. She...
