These pieces could be hung together. Each contains a separate, but complementary, mantra.

Multi-Panels

The technique of cold wax medium for oil painting transforms the painting with each layer; it is truly an exercise in non-attachment. Mantras focus me and thus become energetically embedded into the paintings in the Mantra Series. The mantra is written, scratched, imprinted, scribbled, and collaged onto each layer, just as mantras are layered into the person using them.

In the Mantra Series, color blocks are containers for the mind to explore; there are boundaries, yet the interplay between the colors magnify the positive and negative space, providing contrast for insight.

Rich, bold colors amplify the mantra, while metallic and iridescent materials represent the treasures waiting to be uncovered during quiet contemplation.

Mantra Series

The Pop Rocks series is my impression of the three main rocks and lines in the sand of the Zen garden we constructed in our backyard after visiting temples in Kyoto, Japan. In the style of Pop Art, the vibrant colors of the scene are meant to depict the pursuit of a new and enlightened worldview.

Pop Rocks

Rock gardens provide a tranquil setting for self-discovery. Paintings in the Rock Garden series contain paper rocks derived from imprints of lower layers of the painting and brought to the surface, a reference to the depths where rocks originate. In some instances, actual rocks and minerals such as sand and marble dust are added to the oil paint.

Amanda Marko