Chandra Brooks was born in the Midwestern city of Town & Country, Missouri where life was rural although parts of it housed some of America’s greatest per capita wealth. Chandra was the sixth child to a conservative fire and brimstone Southern Baptist family.  At the age of fifteen, she ran away to New Orleans to pursue becoming a culinary historian while she lived the life of a street-kid. Ironically, she never fell victim to the perils of the streets such as drugs, alcohol, cigarettes or prostitution because the other kids saw she was different and kept her as their desert rose. After a few months on the streets she was taken in by a Buddhist couple where she learned formal meditation practices.  It was at this stage that Brooks began development of “the self”, and learned to define her being through the universal eye. In this fashion, she learned the discipline of mindful living. To her, these were mind-blowing concepts that changed her life and world view forever.  Around this time, while becoming fascinated with DaVinci and “sacred geometry”, she became mesmerized by the work of Fibonacci, in particular, “The Golden Rectangle”.  She then began to explore a creative outlet by investigating an application of the theory.  She sought to create work that appeals to people visually and emotionally.