Sunday, December 22, 2013

Why do I draw circles.

"I sketched every morning in a notebook a small circular drawing, a mandala, which seemed to correspond to my inner situation at the time. With the help of these drawings I could observe my psychic transformations from day to day…My mandalas were cryptograms…in which I saw the self—that is, my whole being—actively at work."

“In such cases it is easy to see how the severe pattern imposed by a circular image of this kind compensates the disorder of the psychic state– namely through a the construction of a central point to which everything is related, or by a concentric arrangement of the disordered multiplicity and of contradictory and irreconcilable elements. This is evidently an attempt at self-healing on the part of Nature, which does not spring from conscious reflection but from an instinctive impulse.”- Carl Jung




I draw circles to relax. Each mark, circle records a moment, a thought, a dream, a desire, an idea, emotion, a memory.
Each mark helps me relax, focus, breathe.
I draw circles to show you what goes on inside my head, my heart, my soul.
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