The Flower Mandalas blog has a dual purpose:
- To explore the use of art as a means to healing and transformation.
- To ask for your help in completing The Flower Mandalas Project.
Purpose #1: My intent is to use my own Flower Mandalas and related ideas and thoughts as a springboard for a broader exploration of the topic of art, healing, and transformation. I invite you to contribute your own experiences with art, healing, and transformation to the Art, Healing, and Transformation group on Beliefnet.com. I hope that a lively discussion will ensue there. I will moderate this group and, with your permission, post a selection of your contributions on the Flower Mandalas blog. You may also contact me directly at phototransformations@davidbookbinder.com.
Purpose #2: I’d like to ask for your responses to the Flower Mandala images posted here, either briefly as comments to the blog posts or in detail on the Behance Network Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas page. My plan is to create a book of 52 Flower Mandala images, each one paired with an inspirational quotation and original essay which in some way complement the image. My hope is for each image-and-quote-and-essay triad to resonate with a fundamental aspect of human experience.
Thanks for listening and sharing.
- David
David J. Bookbinder, LMHC
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posted September 8, 2008 at 12:04 pm
This absolutely looks like the name implies. Womb-like,enveloping and centering.
posted September 9, 2008 at 11:35 am
this is so beautiful……it make me want to get busy and do my art.
i too focus on flowers and their healing qualities.
thank you so much for sharing your work.
jan mowka
posted September 27, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Thank you for sharing your mandalas. They are beautiful!
posted May 17, 2009 at 9:07 am
I agree flowers have healing properties, I’ve always gone for walks in woods to look for wild flowers or somewhere I knew there were flowers to enjoy to bring peace to my soul.
I particulary found the Peony hit me today, it offered such a sense of peace & calm in a time when I’ve been feeling particullarly upset about finances & my worsening physical health both due to a recent move.
Thanks so much for sharing with us! Your Mandalas are all beautiful & each seems to offer it’s own unique gift for each of us!