TRIANGLES: A LOVE STORY

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The mandala/coloring book craze hit right around the time I was contemplating moving my art making to the center of my spiritual practice, so I gave it a look. The coloring was relaxing, and reengaging with crayons was excellent, but the mandalas I encountered were mostly generic designs that I didn’t connect to.

My previous interest in mandalas was sparked by having been privileged to observe a team of Tibetan monks create a sand mandala at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts where I was in residence  in the early ’90s. So, still intrigued after having checked out the coloring books,  I started looking at, among other things, yantras.

Yantras are ancient Tantric mystical diagrams created to represent various deities or cosmic powers. I found them interesting to study and satisfying to draw in a variety of ways. In the center of many of the yantras I explored, I encountered… triangles.

TRIPURABHAIRAVA YANTRA – Public Domain

At first I thought it was love at first sight.

© keven lock

But then I realized that triangles had been in my life all along…..

COLOR THEORY CLASS PROJECT – 1977

There many ideas about what triangles symbolize…

Triangle: A polygon having three sides.

40″ x 30″ ACRYLIC/MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS

Cool.

Thanks for looking in!
Kev