“The Nature of the Mind: Seeing Ourselves” Series

Acrylics on Canvas

 

Dreams          Triptych 20x48                           

Self-Aware     Diptych 40x60

Mind In Fall     24x30                        Sold

Renewal     Diptych 24x60

Lights of Consciousness: Laughter        24x48            Sold

The Mind In Time:  Tomorrow       30x40

The Mind in Time:  Yesterday     30x40

The Mind In Time:  Today        30x40

Mind Pond I     WG   16x20

Mind Pond II       16x20

Body Conscious        16x20         Sold

Love in Mind     48x48

The Mind In Time:  Another Today       24x48

“The Nature of The Mind: Seeing Ourselves” Series represents an exploration of human consciousness described in the ancient sanskrit text, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.  This 5000 year old treatise offers an advanced system of psychology which teaches that our minds are like ponds of water and our thoughts like the ripples on the surface of that water. *

This series of paintings offers a variety of mind states - how the mind might look at different times and in different experiences.




The dark bands of ripples represent the structures determining our experience, decisions, reactions, and vision of the world.  The behaviors modeled for us as children, the ideas and rules of our culture, our families, and positions, the hard-won lessons that life has provided all shape the conscious and unconscious structures in our minds. 



*  More about this on the History Page.

Meditative Mind         24x48

Spring Mind      16x20         Oil on Canvas

Waning Love       36x36                   Sold