Title: Blue Pentagon

Media: Colored pencil and oil pastel on paper

Size: 20" x 20"

Framing: unframed

Price or Current disposition: $500.00

Date: 1988

Comments: This mandala has a certain formal clarity and primary, elementary quality. Texture and color are the main earthy, or material departures from the pure archetypal geometry and even the colors are primary. A running theme in the geometry of my mandalas is the circle and the square as a kind of yin-yang, male female duality. There is a geometric method for constructing a circle with the same perimeter as a square that yields the points of a pentagon as a by product. I also discovered early on that if you take a circle and square that are the same perimeter, the point where they overlap comes very close (although not mathematically precise) to a point one ninth in from the corner of the square. That is one of the main reasons I prefer using a 9x9 grid in so many of my mandalas.