From just one seed…
Mandala Message: July 4, 2020 The universe speaks to us all the time with messages that can be challenging and hard merging with messages of generosity and appreciation. Two days … Continue reading
Lift the veil…
Mandala Message: May 31, 2020 Humans are able to create devices that can connect to each other while traveling 17,000 miles an hour way above the earth’s surface. Watching it … Continue reading
Brave New World…
Mandala Message: May 22, 2020 Happy with new moon this am…feeling a bit more movement. Movement these days has little relevance to movement a few months ago. The outer world … Continue reading
The Hidden Side of the Moon…
Mandala Message: May 8, 2020 When we all emerge from this “lock down” timing, may we come laden with the hidden treasures of the self and disperse them generously and … Continue reading
The Cocoon Opens…
Finishing a new cloth mandala…sewing it to a linen background to go into a deep purple frame. I used pieces from a couple of fabric printed digital mandalas and fabric … Continue reading
Walk Yourself Home
Mandala Message: March 29, 2020 Advice to the home-bound… You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply … Continue reading
Fall Deep Into Your Brilliant Self
Mandala Message: March 27, 2020 As we stew in our own juices at home, here is an 800 year old message from Rumi, via Coleman Barks who titled it “Chickpea … Continue reading
Crown Thy Good with Brotherhood
Mandala Message: March 25, 2020 A new mandala swam forth from the stream…it’s not perfect or static, like a natural organism swimming from sea to shining sea. [“Crown Thy Good … Continue reading
Rise from the Ashes
My postcard collage arrived in South Carolina for the 2020 Twitter Art Exhibit. Go to #twitterartexhibit to see images of all the submissions for this wonderful annual art exhibit where … Continue reading
Twelve New Year Mandalas for 2020…
Just finished making twelve mandalas, one a day for twelve days, as part of the New Year’s practice I have done for a long time (as taught by Ann Ree … Continue reading
Winter Solstice 2019…
Winter Solstice (still-point) today, Dec 21, at 8:20 pm PST… I wake up early these days with ongoing pre-dawn awareness of the rotation of the earth itself. Now, as I … Continue reading
Love Emerges
Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking. Center your country in the Tao and evil will have no power. Not … Continue reading
Souls Gather to Fulfill the Blueprint of America
The mandala was made several years ago. I started out with some photos of children’s art I saw at a craft show. The photos ended up unrecognizable and came together … Continue reading
Redemption
Addressing the so-called “mental health” issue as a deterrent and/or solution for gun violence only works when there exists an adequate and active and widely available mental system…and when there … Continue reading
Stitching Time
Stitching draws me in. I don’t want to stop. Sometimes I wonder if it’s more distraction than art, but I keep stitching. It may add up to something in the … Continue reading
The Paths of Art…
The mandala reveals more about itself, as I use needle and thread to communicate with it. Art truly is a process, not a “thing”. See the yellow-ish stitches to each … Continue reading
The Round Table
Life always comes full circle, giving us chances for continual “do-overs.” A new 2020 calendar emerges with the cover mandala lifting itself up through the piles of mandalas made over … Continue reading
A Stitch in Time
I used to sew by hand almost fifty years ago. Here I am doing it again. I love the slowness of it. I forgive myself for being not so great … Continue reading
Twitter Art Exhibit 2019
Excited to have a “postcard” in the 2019 Twitter Art Exhibit opening on May 11 in Edinburgh, Scotland. This is the first year this annual exhibit was open to digital … Continue reading
Possibility
“For me, mandalas—making them and contemplating them—is a deeply spiritual experience. I am grateful to all the mandalic threads that have been woven into my life—coming from so many human … Continue reading
Following a trail…
Looking for words to describe the stitches that follow color and shape and pattern…layers upon layers that started out as a something that was photographed, losing its way within a … Continue reading
Marking time…
For the first time, a calendar made of mandalas shows up…. Made from twelve digital mandalas, the calendar measures 8.5 inches square. I love that I found greenerprinter.com to print … Continue reading
New Year Mandalas
Almost every January I make one mandala a day for the first twelve days of the year. The mandalas become a prophetic and inspirational image for each the twelve months … Continue reading
How Flowers Changed the World
Spring is here again in the Sierra Foothills, and cannot be suppressed even by a sudden drop in temperature and snow dusting the hills for a few early morning hours … Continue reading
Mandala-making…
Finally, I am diving deeper into photoshop. I took a fun drive up Dry Creek Road yesterday for a wonderful tutorial with Badger artist, Robert Mertens. He kept saying, “I’ll … Continue reading
Mandala as Living Organism
A microscopic photograph of a marine diatom alga Actinoptychus heliopelta made by Dr. Stephen Nagy of Helena, Montana “Diatoms are microscopic, unicellular organisms that occur abundantly in marine and freshwater … Continue reading
Mandala that tweets
Tweet Wheel Life is a circle that spirals. Often we re-visit issues thought to be over. They come around in new form if we need a message. this morning’s Burnout … Continue reading
reinventing the wheel…
There are artists, and then there are Artists. The distinction seems to come from how much money someone forks over for something made by your hand or executed by others, … Continue reading
Mandate for an artist…
The story of the art, its biography or “provenance” or evolution into form, is what brings meaning to the work. Not that art has to have a stated meaning, but … Continue reading
Elsah Cort 🌀 Artist 