Media: Colored pencil and oil pastel on Arches Cover Black

Size: 28" x 42"

Framing: unframed

Date: around 1987 to 1989 (there is no visible signature or date)

Comments: This work is a cross between the Pattern series and the Mandala series. Like most of the mandalas it was worked and reworked over a long period. The surface texture is unique and up close it almost has the feel of a woven carpet. I have always liked hanging it together with Dissolution. The two were not originally related but there is something about the two that seemed to complement each other. They seem to form a kind of duality. Pool is full of circles and suggests a kind of welling up of life. Dissolution is dominated by squares and suggests structure or order that is dissolving away.