Refugee Mandalas: A Visual Analysis

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We looked at drawings again at the Learning Center like the last week. The first picture we saw was the same picture as the last time, the drawing in which a guy who was overprotected by his mother drew. The picture was the same, but what I felt from the picture was slightly different. I saw something I didnʻt see the last time. Today, I saw the faceless figure and felt a creepy feeling because if I had to draw a person(especially my family member), I would draw a face definitely. However, his drawing did not have a face. From this, I felt like he was mechanized and emotionless because of his mother. Further, I felt emptiness from the white space of the drawing today. I found that our mind is always changing. What we focus on can change even in a day.
We also talked about dreams(unconsciousness), anima, animas, and symbolism. In some culture, like Hawaiian, dream is considered very important. Even some people believe that dream world is the real world. Dream can tell us our unconscious minds. When we talked about dream, I thought about a dream that I used to dream every year. In the dream, I was in a darkness by myself. I called my
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If we look at the nature, circles appear everywhere. Specifically, the sun, the moon, the earth, a galaxy, the crystal of vitamin C, and etc… are all circle. After we talked about mandalas in the class, I looked at my drawings and found many circular symbols. I searched more about mandala on the internet and found out that the color used in mandala also contains meanings. Moreover, certain numbers are significant for individuals. In the universe 12 is one of the significant numbers since we have 12 months a year and 24 hours a day. Mine is 3 because my name means a girl who has three blessings. I do not know what those three blessings are, but I remember that when my starting order number had 3 at any competitions, I did well at

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