Beautiful Mandala Print

After making mandalas loaded with symbolism, I wanted to make a beautiful mandala using color and composition only-with no meaning other than the mandala itself as an object of beauty, I happened up on a text by Agnes Martin expressing a similar view: "Beauty Is the Mystery of Life by Agnes Martin When I think of art, I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in my mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection. We respond to beauty with emotion. Beauty speaks a message to us. We are confused about this message because of distractions.... Beauty is an awareness in the mind. It is a mental and emotional response that we make. ..." .... The original is for sale- composed of paper, oil, plaster, under a layer of resin 1/4 inch thick on top of a marine quality sheet of plywood with a wooden frame. Heavy. This art is more than a painting, it is a mixed media collage using paint under resin. Saatchi does not have a category for this, I chose painting as the closest category. Prints are made from a high res scan of the original. From my website: Mandalas have been used since the 9th century as tools for meditation. Traditionally, mandalas represent a perfect universe with symmetrically placed circles and squares. The object of worship, the deity, is in the center. I have worked this perfectly symmetrical form into a deconstructed asymmetrical version for our 21st century eyes. Instead of ancient deity images in the center, I place contemporary images, some ancient writings of wisdom, a power symbol or a protector, all mixed with the images “worshipped” in our contemporary culture, such as images of celebrity or beauty. A collage of nature images from my photography, symbols from Eastern religions, oil paint, open source images from the internet, combined with of plaster, gold leafing, layers of resin, oil paint, and Tibetan papers create the rich luminous textures.