Media: Colored pencil on paper
Size: 20" x 20"
Date: mid 1980s
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Comments: The series of mandalas began after I read a book on Gothic Rose Windows. These first two include patterns quoted from Chartres cathedral combined with some of my own ideas.
Media: felt tip markers on charcoal paper (an archival time bomb)
Size: 20" x 20"
Date: Early 1980s
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Media: Colored pencil on black paper
Size: 19" diameter
Date: late 1980s
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Media: Colored pencil on white paper
Size: 19" x 19"
Date: Mid 1980s
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Comments: This work incorporated the geometric constructions that would allow a mason or carpenter to quickly subdivide a surface by any number from one to ten. They look complicated but with a compass and square they are actually quick and easy. As diagrams they show more than the few essential lines a builder would actually bother drawing.
Media: Colored pencil on black paper
Size: 19-1/2" x 19-1/2"
Date: late 1980s
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Comments: There are a number of constructions that I tended to use over and over. One is a 9x9 division of a square. I discovered by chance that if you draw a circle where it intersects the first corner then both the circle and square come very close to have the same perimeter. The 9x9 square is also shown in early Hindu architectural texts for establishing the sacred space around a temple.
Media: Colored pencil and oil pastel on black paper
Size: 20" x 20"
Date: 1984
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Comments: This work combines the 9x9 grid with a spherical division of space. In the center there is an additional construction for producing a circle with the same perimeter as a square. The construction also yields points for a pentagon and the lines for a yin-yang symbol.
Media: Colored pencil and spray paint on paper
Size: 20" x 20"
Date: Mid 1980s
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Media: Colored pencil and oil pastel on black mat board
Size: 20" x 20"
Date: late 1980s
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Comments: In the early phase of this work you can see the fa miler 9x9 grid as well as a boarder pattern adapted from a book on Chinese lattices.
Media: Colored pencil and oil pastel on black mat board
Size: 20" x 20"
Date: late 1980s
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Comments: Over time I began working and reworking a set of about ten or twelve mandalas. They all started with a geometric foundation which then became the point of departure for atmospheric and expressionistic use of oil pastels.
Media: Colored pencil and oil pastel on white paper
Size: 20" x 20"
Date: late 1980s
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Media: Colored pencil and oil pastel on white paper
Size: 20" x 20"
Date: 1987, 88, 89
Media: Colored pencil and oil pastel on white paper
Size: 24" x 24"
Date: Late 1980s and early 1990s
Price: $700.00
Media: Colored pencil, black spray paint and oil pastel on white paper
Size: 20" x 20"
Date: finished in 1988
Price: $700.00
Media: Colored pencil, ink and oil pastel on white paper
Size: 19" x 19"
Date: 1986
Price: $700.00
Media: Colored pencil and oil pastel on white paper
Size: 28" x 28"
Date: finished late 1980s
Price: $900.00
Media: Colored pencil and oil pastel on paper
Size: 22" x 22"
Date: finished 1989
Price: $700.00
Media: Colored pencil and oil pastel on buff colored paper
Size: 19" x 19"
Date: 1987
Price: $700.00
Media: Colored pencil and oil pastel on black paper
Size: 22" x 22"
Date: late 1980s or early 1990s
Price: $700.00
Media: Colored pencil and oil pastel on paper
Size: 22" x 22"
Date: late 1980s
Price: $700.00
Media: Colored pencil and oil pastel on paper
Size: 20" x 20"
Date: 1988
Price: $500.00
Media: Colored pencil and oil pastel on paper
Size: 20" x 20"
Date: late 1980s
Price: $500.00
Media: Colored pencil on black paper
Size: 20" x 20"
Date: late 1980s
Price: $300.00
Condition note: There is a small tear in the surface of this piece that has be repaired from behind with archival tape.
Media: Colored pencil on black paper
Size: 19 3/4" x 19 3/4"
Date: 1987+
Media: Colored pencil on black paper
Size: 19 3/4" x 19 3/4"
Date: 1987
Media: Colored pencil on black paper
Size: 19 3/4" x 19 3/4"
Date: 1987
Media: Colored pencil on black paper
Size: 19 3/4" x 19 3/4"
Date: 1987
Media: Colored pencil on black paper
Size: 19 3/4" x 19 3/4"
Date: 1987
Title: Temple
Media: Colored pencil and oil pastel on black paper
Size: 18" x 24"
Date: 1988
Price: $1,000.00
Comments: This last mandala is a personal favorite. I returned to the mandala theme after I had spend about a few years working on the series of infinite horizons and some of the early images with spheres. The mandala required no layering or reworking like the others but seemed to emerge unbidden like some kind of final restatement of everything I had been doing up until then.
Like most of the other mandalas it combines two variations on the Indian vastupurusa mandala and the foot print of a simple Hindu temple cella. (The central space of a Hindu temple cella is referred to as the garba griha -- literally womb. Here I think of the central element as the most physical. It is connected with the earth in the sense of mother earth, the secure, embracing, enfolding protective core.) The whole structure is a kind of timeless, infinite, cosmic space with the material or elemental at the center. This approaches what I think (or feel) a temple is all about but without it being some kind of didactic illustration of a particular cultural tradition or idea of what a temple is. This idea runs through all of my mandalas -- that of the intersection of the archetypal, geometric and absolute realm of ideas with the physical, material and expressive human experience.