"Art is literacy of the soul." Elliot Eisner

In an Art History class, one of my students handed in his mandala saying that he wasn't sure if he had done it correctly. I replied that it looked like he had made his design to show his love of nature and the balance of the cycles of the seasons. He looked at me skeptically...

"How do you know that?" he said.

"I read your mandala image. Is that what you wanted me to see?"

"Yes..." He looked at me and then quite abruptly said "This is what I want to do, I want to make images that speak who I am."