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 July 3, 2011 at 5:34 am
i’ve recently started coloring mandalas as a form of therapy. i’m bipolar and find it soothing. it’s a way to channel energy plus i love going back and seeing what i’ve done through use of color (i.e. what each color means and how i’ve used them on the mandala)… i love the idea of mandalas in nature and especially love the idea of mixing inspiration sayings with each mandala to give them more meaning. your book sounds wonderful. your pictures are amazing. good luck to you in this venture… warmly, stacey
p.s. i chose to post on the daisy as they were my mother’s favorite flower and i lost her in feb of 2010… this one is beautiful…