The base design for creating all my heart mandalas starts with a simple combination of four hearts that I had named F(2) for Family-Friendship. I create it by hand by making an x and then covering each top with the two arches to make a heart. But of course, I had to design a really unique heart to do that digitally (back in 1996,) and I made sure that all the angles that result when the hearts wedge together continue to allow more wedging with matching angles--because I always wanted to push myself to see what is possible. Anyway, that base design, quite satisfying and fascinating on its own, reflects the XY(Z) space that we take up with the 4 quadrants. We exist in this world as we move about, always experiencing these directions. These hearts feel like a reflection of all our paths.
The second I add another layer, like a layer of a cake, on top of the first, I enter that Z axis. (That's like our body, standing in the middle of the quadrants.) And once I add details to it with hearts facing in or out for example, it's like the decorations on the cake--and I can decorate in a pattern or break the pattern, with strawberries and blueberries facing one direction or another on each layer of the cake. If I compare this mandala to the body standing in space--it's what happens if we move our leg front low, side low, back low, and then front high, side high, back high... and if we add a little detail like flexing the foot or bending the knee the same in each direction and height--that's that heart, or strawberry, to make it a spatial pattern on an XYZ space.
Some people are more drawn to patterns than others. I have not seen books that deal with these types of spatial patterns, so ...I developed chapters and types... because it had to happen. But then I had to explore this in more directions, like inwardly-the psychological side. There's definitely a tug of war between the right and left hemisphere as we choose whether to adhere to the pattern or break it--whether when we color symmetrical designs or draw our own. A parallel scenario would be if we were making a speech but breaking the expected rules, or sending some overly enthusiastic or even flirty email in a work setting --because that right brain hemisphere decided it was time to express itself. Sometimes you feel drawn more to the anal rules or mathematical perfection (left brain), which has its own sort of beauty, and other times you recognize that flipping the order or adding a little surprise or contrast adds so much, too.
There is actually an epidemic of repression of the right hemisphere. Mostly probably because of the years of formal schooling, many tend to let that left brain judge and repress the right, even though that's the one we can't survive without. Not everyone suffers from this imbalance. But a healthy mind is comfortable navigating making decisions, knows when to make jokes in a work setting and not regret them... One of my workbooks is:https://a.co/d/0cDb54QE
The second I add another layer, like a layer of a cake, on top of the first, I enter that Z axis. (That's like our body, standing in the middle of the quadrants.) And once I add details to it with hearts facing in or out for example, it's like the decorations on the cake--and I can decorate in a pattern or break the pattern, with strawberries and blueberries facing one direction or another on each layer of the cake. If I compare this mandala to the body standing in space--it's what happens if we move our leg front low, side low, back low, and then front high, side high, back high... and if we add a little detail like flexing the foot or bending the knee the same in each direction and height--that's that heart, or strawberry, to make it a spatial pattern on an XYZ space.
Some people are more drawn to patterns than others. I have not seen books that deal with these types of spatial patterns, so ...I developed chapters and types... because it had to happen. But then I had to explore this in more directions, like inwardly-the psychological side. There's definitely a tug of war between the right and left hemisphere as we choose whether to adhere to the pattern or break it--whether when we color symmetrical designs or draw our own. A parallel scenario would be if we were making a speech but breaking the expected rules, or sending some overly enthusiastic or even flirty email in a work setting --because that right brain hemisphere decided it was time to express itself. Sometimes you feel drawn more to the anal rules or mathematical perfection (left brain), which has its own sort of beauty, and other times you recognize that flipping the order or adding a little surprise or contrast adds so much, too.
There is actually an epidemic of repression of the right hemisphere. Mostly probably because of the years of formal schooling, many tend to let that left brain judge and repress the right, even though that's the one we can't survive without. Not everyone suffers from this imbalance. But a healthy mind is comfortable navigating making decisions, knows when to make jokes in a work setting and not regret them... One of my workbooks is:https://a.co/d/0cDb54QE
