US (MA): Organic grower turns flowers into mandalas
It was November; the foliage was crunchy and brown, the flowers dry and fading. As she wound her way through the mountains, she had an urge to gather up little bits of nature, “some because I’d never seen them before, some which were the same things we have here.”
At night, she’d play with her foraged materials on the ground outside her tent, arranging them in free-form colorful designs that she recognized as mandalas — ancient geometric-shaped figures which carry symbolic weight in Buddhism and have been embraced in the Western world.
She posted it on Instagram, and then another, and another, and before long “The Ritual Mandala” was born — a digital catalog of more than 115 (so far) of her textured, richly colored mandalas created from natural materials. These include leaves, sticks, sand, pine cones, feathers, eggplants, radishes, hard-boiled eggs, stone, seashells — and lots of flowers. (It doesn’t hurt to own a flower farm if you’re involved with mandalas.)
Read more at The Boston Globe