A short artist statement introducing Dr. Kathryn Colleen’s first NFT collection, which tests the idea of selling ideas as NFTs — six separate concepts intended to democratize innovation and establish ‘ideas’ as a new NFT category.
An artist’s statement for an abstract piece created during pandemic lockdowns, attempting to capture the felt sense of disillusionment: churning discomfort and fear in the body alongside an openness and sense of new possibility.
An artist’s statement for a mandala-based visual piece offered as a contemplation on the divine feminine, left open for the viewer’s own interpretation.
An artist’s statement for a visual piece inspired by the late-night sky over rural Loudoun County, Virginia, playing with darkness, stars, the moon and the Blue Ridge to evoke a calming effect.
An early concept artwork created for Stage Six of the personal-development model, later set aside as the official piece — illustrating how compartmentalized that stage is while still holding many interconnections.
An artwork depicting a vision seen during the artist’s Reiki Master attunement — three white orchids opening against purple mist — which proved prophetic when the orchids in her kitchen window bloomed two weeks later.
An artwork exploring the idea that black holes may be gateways to other universes, drawing a visual parallel between a universe contained within a black hole and the all-seeing eye of a single cosmic consciousness.
An artwork exploring the idea of multiple universes — how one might be hidden inside another or lie unseen close by — and questioning how blind we really are to what exists within and around us.
An artwork depicting the interplay of human consciousness, the subconscious and the divine — shown as overlapping rectangles with the one consciousness radiating out to experience itself within each level.
A participatory word-art project inviting readers to capture real moments from their lives in stories of exactly ten words, inspired by Hemingway’s famous six-word story, with example entries and simple rules for joining in.
An artist’s reflective project mapping the phases of her life to representative colors, with a white overlay for self-growth and the emergence of the true self, inviting readers to imagine their own life in color.
A short reflection on business as a human endeavor, observing that companies are filled with unique people at different phases of their journeys, all seeking real connection to themselves and others and purpose in their work.
An overview of Kathryn Colleen’s album Purna Asatti: Music For Complete Connection, describing its Meditation Mix, a Connection Mix journeying through eleven stages, individual stage tracks, an indiscernible Sanskrit chant, and where the record was written and recorded.
A description of the Stage Eleven mandala from the Purna Asatti stages model, using color symbolism — altered consciousness, intuition, self, energy — to convey the dissolution of separateness into pure creative energy at the journey’s most foundational point.
A description of the Stage Ten mandala from the Purna Asatti stages model, where the truth of self recognizes itself as the one consciousness within all things — a profound, near-religious realization still encapsulated within the physical body.
A description of the Stage Nine mandala from the Purna Asatti stages model, where recognizing oneself as a consciousness within the body takes on a divine quality, yielding focused intuition and a felt connection to others as fellow consciousnesses.
A description of the Stage Eight mandala from the Purna Asatti stages model — the comfort of complete organization, where people, ideologies, experiences, and the true self connect into a coherent whole while remaining at peace with what is still unknown.
A description of the Stage Seven mandala from the Purna Asatti stages model — the chaos of once-certain reality falling apart, where questioning and breakdown open onto the promise of freedom, the true self, the divine, and trust in intuition.
A description of the Stage Six mandala from the Purna Asatti stages model, where rigid ideology begins to share space more equally with the true self, the divine, and emerging energy, while others are still seen mainly through their experiences.
A description of the Stage Five mandala from the Purna Asatti stages model, where ideology dominates entirely — a black hole absorbing others, experiences, and needs — leaving the true self, the divine, and freedom captive to a rigid worldview craving validation.
A description of the Stage Four mandala from the Purna Asatti stages model, where the individual first notices that others have needs too — experiences radiating outward to bring awareness of others — in a stage that feels satisfied but faintly smug.
A description of the Stage Three mandala (I Am My Needs) from the Purna Asatti stages model, where the true self and the divine are pushed aside as body, experiences, and needs swirl into a self-centered vortex of craving and attachment.
A description of the Stage Two mandala from the Purna Asatti stages model, where the divine recedes and the true self sends forth scattered experiences — some encapsulated, some not — etched into the body, with the golden ratio depicting how experiences arrive.
A description of the Stage One artwork from the Purna Asatti stages model, decoding its colors and symbolism: dark red as the one true-self consciousness, teal as the divine manifested into physical form, and gold as the higher intuition intending to manifest, evoking the Big Bang as birth.
A short note on an abstract jewelry design derived from the author’s Cycle of Human Development model, 3D printed into a necklace and keychain used as personal reminders and as tools for meditation and affirmation work.