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 19, 2008 at 12:58 am
beautiful job.
posted September 19, 2008 at 6:17 pm
I love this blog. I don’t I’ve seen anyone focus on mandalas as much as this. Are you guys involved with any online art communities like Myartspace or Redbubble? Would love to friend you.
posted September 23, 2008 at 5:27 pm
How beautifully exquisite!
Your Mandala & Thich Nhat Hanh’s words.
Thank you!
posted October 4, 2008 at 6:58 am
This flower is so purity and it impresses my heart very much. The softness of petals, color structure is great.
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Brook
Sreevysh Corp
posted October 7, 2008 at 7:17 am
Beautiful rose, but do you reall think that roses and garbage are equal? If that is true, then humans and plants are equal, too, since both depend upon each other; we need the oxygen they give off and they need to fertilizer that we will become when we die. Yet, surely, our experience, common sense, and sound reasoning tells us otherwise; humans are infinitely more precious (think of an innocent baby held in his/her mother’s arms) than an oak tree, let alone a handful of mold spores (there’s a reason that no one cuddles with either of them). What do you think? Have I misunderstood the point of the quotation?
posted October 22, 2008 at 8:06 am
Ben,
I suspect that if you were to ask the oak tree which was more important, an oak sapling or a human baby, it would come up with a different answer than we would.
posted May 4, 2009 at 10:10 am
Your work speaks to me as a therapist and scent maker