Project Proposal - November 2005

I could not think at first of a project, but I trusted that I would. At the end of a week after the Deepening meet, I only had two ‘real’ ideas and neither was moving my heart, nor could I seem to form them into a project. One of these was to sit under a tree in nature, somewhere different each week and just be with myself in a quiet space and the second was to use my music collection to somehow tell the story of my life over the weeks. After much deliberation on these two, they still did not feel like ‘it’.

I decided to search the internet for ‘Spiritual Journeys’ and ‘Pilgrimages’ and again at first nothing grabbed my attention. Then I stumbled across some beautiful and very colourful images, they were called ‘Mandalas’ and I had known nothing about them until now.

The more I read about them and the more colourful, elaborate and creative designs I saw, the more I was drawn in.

Not being at all creative and having never been able to draw or create things, I ruled this out as a project and was just enjoying looking at the immense world of Mandalas before me. I felt I would never be able to find anything as beautiful as this within myself and even I if did, I would never be able to express it in such a creative way. Then I saw this as a huge reason to consider ‘going there’ and I decided to say ‘Yes’.

I started to look into the subject more and started to read about the many different ways Mandalas are used and the many different cultures which use them, project ideas started to fall into place.