The three mandalas shown on this post were executed on photocopy paper while I was hospitalized in the summer of 2022, and somehow survived the purge of 2025 — even though I destroyed (among many other drawings of mine) a bunch of mandalas I did months later, back home. I had used a compass in a Moleskine A4 sketchbook in the fall of 2022 For those drawings, fragments of which survived (shown just below).

But these three I had originally sketched freehand, using whatever materials were at hand, have a purity to them.

I intend to start working on mandala drawings again soon and will derive inspiration from the pieces I kept a few photos of. I could use the meditation. My father would be pleased, he was always encouraging me to create original visual art.