Spring in the Zion lands has been wonderful.  I like to look close at our world.  There are wonderful universes in the rock here very much like my light paintings. Combined with plant life it is a joy just to see new life in the middle of a desert rich with abstraction.

So as the summer solstice comes to pass these are two of the best new spring mandalas of spring 2019.  ~enjoy~

my best work ever to date ......

"Sometimes the simple things are the hardest to understand"

New Zion mandalas

After considerable time with the name of Peter you begin to understand rock.   My favorite recent photo in Zion a mandala, I call "Relic" The name came to me after reading this quote:

I now reside atop the Zion plateau near Virgin Utah.

The diversity of rock and nature is amazing.

I think I'll stay.

The rock & diversity of nature is so like my abstract works.

Kolob canyon from five miles west of the plateau above...

Ok? - so what's the big deal about Zion?

Alternative Earth created in Photoshop in 2014 as a mandala, and was made from one of my best light painting done in 1990 on film called Jet Stream is that, Eye of Zion 2017, as a straight natural mandala that I made last spring is almost exactly the same as Alternative Earth - except for the color palette of course.  And as I wandered in the slot canyons of Zion I was taken aback by how I was seeing my light paintings everywhere -

it even made me woozy at times.....

See....