This mandala pattern is a product of my study with two women from whom I have learned so much. The original image is from a random photo of my tin of graphite encaustic paint that I let get too hot during one of Caryl St. Ama's RF Paint workshops. The paint was much more interesting to me on my palette than it ever got to be on the painting I was trying to execute. So I snapped a photo.
It's pretty amazing I've got to say. Even today I'm a bit mesmerized, and it's only the photo. And all I did was leave the tin on my palette because I was completely disinterested in using it. And it became fascinating. The photo reminds me of a brain diagram. In-person it had a sort of metallic, shimmery, color-changing, molecular magic. So I snapped a photo.
Once I got home and looked at the photo I uploaded it into Adobe Photoshop and tinkered with it a bit, ending up with this. Which I filed away as an interesting visual, but with no apparent application.
