This is the entry that I have put on my website's 'under construction' page it is a bit more complete than this site's first entry...
…And so it begins…How about a bit of background… I have been, to one degree or another, obsessed with mandalas and all things good and round since ever I can remember…I drew round stuff, early in my teens I photographed round stuff with my Dad’s old VogtlÃĪnder camera and then, later, with his Canon. Round stuff, wagon wheels, cut off log ends… ooh, and I love stones shaped like smarties too. At 14 I designed and drew my first round house and mandalas having discovered what they are. Later I bought a giant school bus painted it magic and set off for beautiful BC to build my dream home a round stack wood house…Which didn’t happen…and then I was detirmined to build and live in a Keekwillie for a year…which didn’t happen…later still I designed my round Yoga studio…which didn’ t happen either…and finally I also managed to successfully not purchase a Ti Pi nor set it up and live in it for a year too…sometimes life ‘hip checks’ us just hard enough to send us off doing not exactly the thing we think that we want to be doing (say that one three times really fast)… but each dream morphed into an equally interesting dream project… projects I have always had a plenty The round stackwood became a log house that I built with a friend, the keekwillie turned into me buying an old church and turning it into home, add along the way chickens, a goat, a pig and an iguana. The yoga studio ended up being me buying an almost hundred year old grocery store and the Ti Pi well so far it just got lost in the shuffle. And fast forward and we find me out of the literal woods and into the virtual woods, I have acquired a couple of electronic toys that I would never have dreamed of when I was hauling water from the creek and collecting eggs from my chickens. And the result of about 20 years worth of ideas is this…Mandalalama, a place to share ideas and stories and some of my artwork and passions and make available for purchase some of the fun things that I think should be out in the world at large…. more is coming….bye for now,
Stay well,
And be
