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\"\"<\/a>Well the week has passed in a flash and it is time to share reflections.\u00a0 After posting my inspiration on Monday of the lovely succulent with all it\u2019s strings attached, I went for a long walk in the back property here at the Ranch. While walking the rolling hills I got to thinking about a quote from Carl Jung that kept spiraling in and out of my thoughts, \u201cWe meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.\u201d \u00a0Somehow I wanted to work with that notion in this weeks\u2019 piece.\u00a0 That led me to the spiral image.\u00a0 I have often thought of the spiral as an important metaphor for life.\u00a0 My journey has not been on straight line of growing and understanding (I wish) but more an upward spiral.\u00a0 Think of the spiral in 3D like a bed spring, going up but still bumping up against the same issues over and over, hopefully from a new perspective, hopefully with a pocket full of lessons learned.\u00a0 The trick, I guess, is to pull that wadded up tissue of a lesson out of my pocket before making the same mistakes again.<\/p>\n

While the inspiration came to me quickly the execution was sometimes frustrating.\u00a0 I experimented with a molding paste from Golden that I had always wanted to try.\u00a0 It adds a thickness and a texture that I don\u2019t use much in my work.\u00a0 I wanted to get the fleshiness of the plant in my image. I was trying to get at the contradiction of softness and sharp points that are a characteristic of the plant.\u00a0 I struggled with the medium fussing with it all week.\u00a0 I finally had to stop my self and say done, or drive myself crazy, reglazing, repainting, redoing\u2026. you get the idea. To sum it all up I wrote a little pledge to myself around the edge of the mandala\/spiral\/succulent that goes like this: I will renew, reflect, recall, receive, recollect, reclaim, reveal.\u00a0 Wish me luck.\u00a0 I hope you will share your reflections too in comment area, if you have an image you would like to share let me know through the comments and we\u2019ll work on making it happen.<\/p>\n

P.S. After struggling with this all week I went to the Golden Paints website and it turns out they have a really great website with videos on how to use all their different mediums. Live and learn, is that what this weeks mandala challenge was all about.\u00a0 I posted a link to the Golden site on the “sites I like” side bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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