Physicality

Over at the X facta, Kel has been having an art attack. We’re invited to create a mandala. They’re widely used in many cultures, and you can read much more about them at the interesting Mandala Project.

Kel’s invitation came at a good time for me, as I’ve been doing some art journalling in circular shapes. I’m creating a visual wheel of life, with different circles representing different parts of life. The one above is Physicality. I used the term “Physicality” deliberately: I wanted a word that was more muscular and all-encompassing than, for example, “Health”.

(In coaching terms, a wheel of life is a useful tool to look at different parts of your life and what you may need to work on. If you’re interested you can find detailed explanations online, like this one. Pick the elements of life that are important to you, not necessarily any pre-set ones.)

You may be asking “what’s with the tag?”. Well once I’m done I’ll bind all these circular life segments together and use the tags to pull out the segment I want to look at.

This isn’t a classical mandala, but I was very aware of both the limitation and gifts of the circular shape while I was creating it.