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- “Mandala 1″, Oil pastel on cardboard, 9 x 12”, Erika Connor 2011
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- “Mandala 2″, Oil pastel on cardboard, 9 x 12”, Erika Connor 2011
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- “Mandala 3″, Oil pastel on cardboard, 9 x 12”, Erika Connor 2011
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- “Mandala 4″, Oil pastel on cardboard, 9 x 12”, Erika Connor 2011
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- “Mandala 5″, Oil pastel on cardboard, 9 x 12”, Erika Connor 2011
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- “Mandala 6″, Oil pastel on cardboard, 9 x 12”, Erika Connor 2011
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- “Mandala 7″, Oil pastel on cardboard, 9 x 12”, Erika Connor 2011
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- “Mandala 8″, Oil pastel on cardboard, 9 x 12”, Erika Connor 2011
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- “Mandala 9″, Oil pastel on cardboard, 9 x 12”, Erika Connor 2011
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- “Mandala 10″, Oil pastel on cardboard, 9 x 12”, Erika Connor 2011
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- “Mandala 13″, Oil pastel on cardboard, 9 x 12”, Erika Connor 2011
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- “Mandala 12″, Oi pastel on cardboard, 9 x 12”, Erika Connor 2011
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- “Mandala 13″, Oil pastel on cardboard, 9 x 12”, Erika Connor 2011
“Mandalas”
I began this series in the winter of 2011. The 13 oil pastel mandalas represent a year’s lunar cycle and were created month by month. I was inspired by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung and the idea of self-healing in Nature, natural patterns that arose in us in relation to the Divine order. I approached each one in an intuitive state, openly without expectations, allowing it to unfold.
The series was exhibited in Quebec in 2012, and included woven baskets, containers and cordage that I made during this time, a harkening back to primitive art forms made from living natural materials. The patterns that people saw in nature had a direct correlation to what was going on inside them. Containers or catchments, both physical and ephemeral, are a weaving of inner processes.
