We humans have always had a fascination with the circle. We experience it throughout nature– in the spiral of the Milky Way, the orbiting planets, and the cycles of life itself. As children, we also discover that we can use a crayon to make circular forms on paper; it’s a universal stage of artistic development that every normal child throughout the world experiences. In fact, it is the first major milestone in image-making and for that reason, a child’s circle drawing may be one the earliest representations of the self.