Within the circle
It's my understanding that the psychotherapist and writer, Carl Jung, constructed one mandala each morning for a two-year period of his life. I'm not there yet, I'm just learning how to construct mandalas, period.
The circle is a symbol of completeness and wholeness. Last year, in the girls' therapy group at Juvenile Hall, for eight weeks I brought in every kind of circle art project I could think of so the girls would have a series of whole and complete symbols in their art journals. Each time I reminded them that this was a project they could do on their own on the "outs" to calm and comfort themselves instead of using drugs or getting themselves in some sort of trouble.
I have no idea whether this made any kind of impact whatsoever, but it calms ME, so I work within the circle often.
Well I sure hope it helped them. Just that someone wants to really help them should give a few of them something to think about. It's a very nice mandala. I've only made one. I keep signing up for classes which has got to stop so I can do some of these relaxing things.
ReplyDeleteI like this one a lot. I love the delicacy of the tendrils and that it's done on dark paper. nancy
ReplyDeleteOh, I am sure it made some kind of impact on them! I want to think that, at least. Do you have any contact with any of them still? Sounds like a very interesting project.
ReplyDeleteI've never made any mandalas, but they look pretty. I really like the delicate leafs in this one.
Very pretty. I like the colors and composition.
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