Note to self - just because you can't see it, doesn't mean something's not there...

The past few days, I've been focused upon forcing my mind to go where it doesn't want to...

It resulted in a pain in the neck, followed by a nasty headache!

The more I tried to force my brain to concentrate, the more it wanted to fly away....

So I made myself sit & draw... 

with no idea what would manifest...

An anxious mind can need discipline to relax...

This was what appeared, & I feel much revived because of it...

Knowing there is love & beauty all around me, even when I'm oblivious, makes me smile...

And I hope the knowledge that it's all around you has made you smile too...

Last mandala a day - "The Flowering"

Final design in this series of creative exercises... It feels like the flowering...

The design itself reminds me of a flower, or butterfly: adulthood... completion.

A vesica pisces has become a door, heavily strapped with a golden cross, and a red "eye": a shield as well as a way in...

I am now in the habit of drawing when I wake up, which was my original intention for making a mandala a day, & I've regained my artistic focus...

Quite a few creative friends have joined me in this short journey, by creating mandalas of their own, and I thank them all for their companionship, as well as encouragement.

Where to from here? I shall continue to create & refine mandala designs, in the hope that I may create a body of work with them.

 I hope this work with the magic circle is as ripples in a pool...

.... activating latent creativity everywhere...