Liberty Mandala
The Liberty Mandala emerged from a feminist healing space in the woods of Woodstock, where I first encountered Lady Liberty venerated as a goddess icon rather than a civic symbol. The resonance was immediate — I had pledged myself in college to the Order of Prometheus, a fraternity whose iconography centered on a Titan bearing a torch for the benefit of humanity. Liberty and Prometheus collapsed into a single devotional figure for me: the torch as divine freedom, as the path beyond blind obedience, as a beacon that keeps burning regardless of consequence.
This painting is a declaration. It is patriotic in the oldest sense — not deference to authority, but love of the city and the radical freedom it embodies. New York Harbor. Lady Liberty at the gate. The promise that you may forge your own path from the choices you are brave enough to make.
It is also a personal covenant: I will blaze a trail of lights as I go, so that others might find their way out of the dark long after I have passed.
Acquire this work for spaces that hold the values you have chosen to live by — not the ones assigned to you.