A mandala in progress, playing with crop circles. In his book A Modern Myth (1958), Jung discusses lenticular UFOs as mandala motifs, or a call from the unconscious for unity and individuation.

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Fabrication sur une semaine, d’un mandala de sable tchenrezi par les moines du monastere de Gyutö, au centre Kalachakra, Paris, en celebration des 90 ans du dalai-lama.

C’est un mandala de l’Esprit, des 5 deites.

Ceremonie de dissolution du mandala, signifiant l’impermanence de toute chose, avec chants et explication exhaustive de la symbolique du mandala, ainsi que des echanges sur l’etat d’esprit des moines lors de sa fabrication. Puis distribution de sachets de sable, en symbole de delivrance des asservissements mentaux.

Remembering an Emma Kunz study I naively embroidered during a month stay at Sasso Residency in Ticino, Switzerland, back in 2017. I bought her book when I visited the Emma Kunz Zentrum and the healing grotto she discovered, from which she created Aion A, a healing rock powder. I wanted to interpret her pencil energetic drawing with thread and explore an unfamiliar color palette. Eventually I was unhappy with the fabric I used and the unnatural tones of the threads, and lost this embroidery but kept some pictures.

I early on somewhat became unconsciously obsessed with blossoms coming out of the merge of polarities, which is -and I found out much later on- actually Goethe’s spiritually intuitive color theory : too much light doesn’t allow colors to emerge, too much darkness doesn’t allow colors to emerge either. Colors physically emerge where light and darkness merge. The danse of polarities creates movement and colors, life.
“However well we get to know the world, it will always contain a day and a night side”. Goethe

Inside the Emma Kunz Zentrum with her pendulum drawings and the Aion A grotto nearby.

On the left, a drawing of a ufo sighting in Laxarby, Sweden, that went on 4 nights in a row in 2016, and another rendition woven in Oaxaca, Mexico in 2017 during an Arquetopia instructional art residency.

My weaving teacher with her sister by their home temazcal, Oaxaca 2017

Adebaran, 2017