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This weeks challenge was in honor of today being Moebius Syndrome Awareness day. We were to take the symbol of the Moebius Sydrome Foundation and use it in our Zentangle. I tried something different by first cutting the outline of the the symbol and then cutting the remaining lines. I then used the cut out shapes as the pattern to create a mosiac type piece.  With the exception of the small diamonds near the outer circle, only the pieces that were part of the Moebius symbol are colored purple. I tried out Diane Lachane's pattern Parasail-z for the outer 3 parts of the design and I used a variation of Carol Ohl's pattern Baton for the outer border. This tile has a simular feel to me as the artwork of the Indians who live in the Northwest of the United States.
(Drawn Januay 24, 2012)

I first became aware of this syndrome in the late 1990's s when my husband had a co-worker with it. He was a very nice and intellegent man but could not move his mouth or eyes; however, it was obvious he had speech therapy at some point. If you weren't watching him, or if you were talking to him on the phone, you would never know that he had any type of challenges by just listening to him talk.