Gaia’s Mandala
October 2004
Acrylic on Canvas
14”x 18”
Gaia needs us all – every one.
May they join in each of us.
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| I started in to do a mandala because
for weeks I’d been getting the 5 of Wands in the Inner Child Tarot
where a fairy is unfolding the last petal of a flower. The book about it
says, among other things, to go paint a mandala. I failed as usual to get
it centered and expanding in proper proportion. So I gave up trying and
just painted. I could see the face in there like the old boogie man or genie
who haunted me in my earliest paintings, but I concentrated on the Gaia
figure in the middle. And on the circle of people on the outside. I thought
often as I painted of the Oregon Reservist I recently sat next to on the
plane on his way to fight in Iraq. We wept together at the turn his life
had taken. As I painted, I kept getting the message that we need all manner
of people. And that the journey of each one is a vital and important one.
Not to be judged or feared or even pitied. But held dearly close to our
hearts. I forgot about the mask but when I finished there it was still –
Villachocha the sky father in Peru or perhaps, the Green Man. Father Earth.
May they join in each of us. |
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