Title: Temple

Media: Colored pencil and oil pastel on black paper

Size: 18" x 24"

Date: 1988

Comments: This mandala is a personal favorite. It combines two variations on the vastupurusa mandala with the foot print of a simple Hindu temple cella. It then gives the whole thing a kind of three dimensional, infinite, cosmic space which approaches what I think (or feel) an inner temple is really all about but without being some kind of didactic illustration of a particular religious tradition's idea of what a temple is. While requiring no reworking to try and make it a natural thing like some of the other mandalas, this mandala grew quite organically out of the entire series of mandalas and horizons.