Outside of religious contexts, it can feel unusual to talk about a creative process as being devotional. However, the process of creating the artworks in this site invites direct comparison with other work which honours the sacredness of images, such as illuminated manuscripts or stained glass windows.
The images and figures in these artworks arise in meditative states, breathwork and dreams, making them different in purpose and effect from artwork which is otherwise designed to be purely decorative.
Here’s a short video introduction for anyone interested in doing their own integration work using mandalas:
The process of bringing images out of the psyche into daylight is both emotional and suprisingly physical, discovering and amplifying their relationship to archetypal myths and symbols in one’s own life and the broader cultural landscape.
Image as Symbol
A mandala can take many months, sometimes years, to contemplate, clarify and compose, yet even the simplest individual element can be a doorway into a deeper story.
A short video describing the personal story behind one single detail in a complex mandala. It’s the story of my mother’s death, my unborn twin, and a poignant connection to the past triggered by a memory of pineapple rings…
Holotropic Mandalas 