Title: Untitled mandala

Media: Colored pencil and oil pastel on paper

Size: 22" x 22"

Framing: unframed

Price or Current disposition: $700.00

Date: finished 1989

Comments: Like a number of other mandalas of the period this began with a geometric diagram which then became obscured under many layers of oil pastel. But rather than cut or re-draw the diagram precisely into the pastel surface I brought geometry back into the work very loosely as if made of yarn or loose thread. I had actually started work on some mixed media sculptural projects about this same time that involved twisted ropes of mixed yarn and some of the aesthetic, tactile qualities of the yarn entered into this work.