"With the feeling of pleasure that beauty brings forth informing our corporal and spiritual senses we become more fully embodied, connecting to the natural world in ever widening circles, expanding our consciousness into greater connection with the life force energy that runs through all of creation."         ...

This describes a painting I am working on which is part of an Initiaition By Fire Mandala we are doing as a group here in Ojai. We had a 7 week workshop which combined ritual, expressive arts and elemental exploration culminated by the creation of a group mandala. As we are coming to completion of the mandala there is a mythic figure that come through one of the artists in the group. I have been charged with painting her and here I explore who she is.