About Mandala Series
The ‘Mandala Series’ is a series of portraits comforting modern people living in suffering. It showcases a desire for their salvation. It is a five-part series consisting of portraits such as; ‘The Jungle’, ‘The Immigrant’, ‘Where are you sleeping tonight?’, ‘Persona’, and ‘Self Portrait’. A mandala, meaning ‘circle’ in Sanskrit, is a concentric configuration of geometric shapes. Each part of the series is a mandala composed of many photographs created using Photoshop. What interested me in mandalas was the fact that they have shown up both in the East and West, in the past and even in the present. From Buddhist mandala paintings to Christian stained-glass mandalas, and from the primitive mandalas engraved on rock to the mandalas used in today's art psychotherapy, many of the mandalas give us the same hope – a desire to finally reach wholeness. My mandalas provide hope to people, urging them to go beyond their own brokenness.