Title: Foundation

Media: Colored pencil, ink and oil pastel on white paper

Size: 19" x 19"

Date: 1986

Comments: One of a number of mandalas worked and reworked over several years. Begining with a geometric foundation and the application and removal of so many layers of pastel that the paper itself became buckeled and stained. I was intreaged by the idea that by working with an image long enough that it would take on a natural quality like drift wood or an erode peice of stone. One could not set out to make such an image but a kind of earthy material reality would emerge from the process of making it.