Since the most ancient times the circle has symbolized eternity and the divine. It is, to use Dr. C.G. Jung's phrase, a universal archetype, and its symbolism embraces all concentrically arranged figures, all circular or even square circumferences having a centre, all radial or spherical arrangements.

The circle or mandala, aside from its special importance to the way man sees himself in time and space, continues to intrigue the visual artist with its unique formalistic considerations and challenges. Within the last decade it has appeared in North American art with such frequency that, as stylistic phenomenon, it can no longer be considered insignificant.

Perhaps it is no coincidence that the last decade has also produced dramatic photographs taken from orbit around the earth - visual evidence of the form of our bio-sphere - and startling x-ray microphotography of the paracrystalline form of the DNA molecule on end, revealing its organization to be that of a quaternity within a circle: a perfect mandala.