by, Nicole Morgan, Copyright 2012
colored pencils and pen on paper
For this project I pieced together several different images that came out of active imagination exercises. When I finished an active imagination drawing, I scanned it in to my computer then printed it out so I could isolate and cut out specific images that spoke to me. Once I had all my images I drew a background on a large piece of paper and began gluing down the images and coloring them in. Through the process of making this mandala I began to realize and accept my own awesomeness. In my final paper about my mandala I wrote: “I’ve wanted to know the Self that is at the core of my Being. For many years I’ve been trapped in my Ego, and for a good portion of these years I’ve wasted time hating myself. I now believe that the self I spent time hating was a false self, a persona others helped assign me. I played my roll well. Like a silver screen, I accepted any image projected onto me. Since then I have shed my silver screen skin and begun to show my true colors. Making my final mandala has helped me gain the confidence to be authentic.”
1 Comment for Final Mandala for Archetypal Psych, Spring 2011
About the Moderator
Magdalena Karlick
Magdalena is the moderator of the online Art Gallery and Paintsplash for Southwestern College. She is also an adjunct faculty member at the college in the Art Therapy program. Magdalena is a therapist at Youth Shelters in Santa Fe, working with Art, Sandplay, and relationship focused techniques with families, adults, teens, and children.
Magdalena is the moderator of the online Art Gallery and Paintsplash for Southwestern College. She is also an adjunct faculty member at the college in the Art Therapy program. Magdalena is a therapist at Youth Shelters in Santa Fe, working with Art, Sandplay, and relationship focused techniques with families, adults, teens, and children.
Very nice articulation of your process and journey…..
jim