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PvE Design - hand painted youth chair , inspired by the Mandala
Each of us have a circle of influence that we are connected to symbolically.
Carlton Ridge - Artist and Designer
In third grade, my teacher Carlton Ridge made a huge impression on me when she wore a Sari to class which she had purchased when she traveled to India.
Carlton Ridge Design
Carlton Ridge also designed amazing pieces of jewelry for Sutton Hoo -that were inspired from nature. If you sported one of her designs, well, immediately you were in the "circle of Carlton."
PvE Design - hand painted youth chair
Several years ago, a friend came to me with a special job to paint a chair for a teacher who was adopting a baby from India. My friend was specific in her request that the chair should be painted with Jewel Tones and somehow have a design with an Indian influence. At the time, I was not familiar with "Mandala" - a sanskrit word conveying to the wholeness of the universe.
Painting a design in a circle has a meditative quality which is therapeutic as well. Often, I wonder how each of us are connected, standing in a circle, inspiring and influencing one another to see the Universe as a whole.
I now think of this chair, and that child surely must be off to school and meeting new teachers and making friends and opening her life to a circle of influence reaching far and wide.
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