Karen Karn

My friend posted a link to a this image via 100Mandala.org's facebook page. I like those 30 day challenges and I love mandalas, so I signed up for the newsletter and started doodling. That was just a few days ago, but I'm already realising that I'd like to know more about mandalas. I went to Wikipedia  and came across this: Carl Jung's first mandala. Already a fan of Jung, I was surprised to find that he was responsible for bringing mandalas to the western world. Carl Jung refers to the mandala as “the psychological expression of the totality of the self.” I realise this is going to something splendid. I'm not going to get too involved in the deep spiritual and psychological aspects of drawing the sacred circle. I want to stay free and explore on my own terms. I know that I will explore more deeply later, but I have the whole year to get what I need to out of this project. For example, today, I just played around with PatternPie. ...

When I was very young, my sister had a friend who was a proper hippy. She was married to a Sri Lankan man and had some kids. Her hair was long, unmanaged and slightly transparent. She wore corduroy jeans and cheesecloth tops. She was of the tradition of never arriving at someone's house empty handed. One day, she came with a book. the Tassajara Bread Book. Since then, the book has been in my possession. Well loved and well utilised. Here's a short excerpt from the film How to Cook Your Life, featuring the book's author, Edward Espe Brown. "It turns out that we'll pay a lot of money not to cook, not to actually confront a half a potato."

PatternPie day. It started out like this.  Hours of fiddling about, produced this. Opened in PatternPie (by WellCrafted Software), these are just a few of the 360 possible 'scopes'. I made a video. (Once upon a time, I made PatternPie animations, capturing each of the 360 scopes and makong a viseo that way. Here's one I made earlier  One I Made Earlier .  I can't remember how I did it, though.... I'm working on it. In the meantime, I filmed it straight from the screen, with my phone.)

Tattoo design.

I subcribe to a few channels on YT. Mostly knitting, some nails and make-up. One these channels belongs to Dani Wagner, who is also an artist. She has work for sale  on her website .