I began this panting from a completely black canvas. It was 2011 and I was feeling completely in the dark and even drawn to the darkness within myself. What is this darkness? It is nothing other than the unconscious, that which is outside of conscious awareness, but operating nevertheless. I started with the familiar circle […]

As with most of my paintings, I really don’t even know what I am going to paint, even sometimes when I am more than halfway through the drawing part of it. I work with what the process is trying to create through me. For Tinihowi, I didn’t recognize it for what it was until it […]

I will first describe the process of creating this kind of Mandala art and then I will share with you some of the wisdom gained from creating this piece.