elephant journal’s Winter 05/06 issue.

By Matt Menger and Robert Mann.

Dharma Brat: Silver Leaf and Mixed Media on Canvas, By Matt Menger and Robert L. Mann, Los Angeles, California.

Our Cover

Matt Menger and Robert Mann, artists out of Los Angeles, have done the impossible: given ele a hip, happening cover, influenced equally by the confident, symmetry of Arts & Crafts, the asymmetrical simplicity of Japanese art, and graffiti art and street murals. As Robert, a Buddhist since birth (‘Dharma Brat’) puts it, the trick is to be simple, precise, mindful— and bold, all at once.

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