MINDSTREAM

I began this series of drawings after reading about the concept of mindstream in Buddhist philosophy, which is literally described as “the stream of mind”, the moment-to-moment flow of sense impressions and mental phenomena.

The Mindstream drawings are done in Prismacolor pencils on Stonehenge paper. As with all my work, the drawings are an introspective process – I find myself reflecting on the inner journey, about letting go of old forms and opening to new ones, of balancing the path inwards with the pathway outwards. Each ellipse represents a thought. The choreography of shapes and colors creates a motion across the paper, a fluid yet gently turbulent “stream of mind” that arises and passes away with every moment.