by Nicole Morgan, Copyright 2012
colored听pencils and pen on paper
For this project I pieced together several different images that came out of active imagination exercises. 听When I finished an active imagination drawing, I scanned it in to my computer then printed it out so I could isolate and cut out specific images that spoke to me. 听Once I had all my images I drew a background on a large piece of paper and began gluing down the images and coloring them in. 听Through the process of making this mandala I began to realize and accept my own awesomeness. 听In my final paper about my mandala I wrote: “I鈥檝e wanted to know the Self that is at the core of my Being.听听For many years I鈥檝e been trapped in my Ego, and for a good portion of these years I鈥檝e wasted time hating myself.听听I now believe that the self I spent time hating was a false self, a persona others helped assign me.听听I played my role well.听听Like a silver screen, I accepted any image projected onto me.听听Since then, I have shed my silver screen skin and begun to show my true colors.听听Making my final mandala has helped me gain the confidence to be authentic.” 听