Title: Thrash (phase two)

Media: Colored pencil and oil pastel on white paper

Size: 20" x 20"

Date: late 1980s

Comments: A great many of the mandalas I created during the 1980s were worked and re-worked over and over until they took on a life of their own unlike anything I could have preplanned. This particular work spent several years as a very light and delicate work which felt a little unfinished but which I could not bring myself to touch. Then one night in a feverish rush of creative energy I turned the image into something closer to an abstract expressionist's action painting than a quiet temple grid. (The original image can be seen here).