October 16, 2013

Talented photographers frequently come to the Botanical Garden at Museum Hill and are inspired by the natural beauty, artful stonework, and the many details, colors, shapes and textures of the surrounding environment. One such creative artist, Harry Hull III, recently visited and used his photography to create what he calls a mandalagraph. On his website, Mandalagraphs.com, Harry publishes his work (usually one per day!).

On his site he tells more about mandalagraphs:

“man∙da∙la (Sanskrit mandala circle)…a graphic and often symbolic pattern usually in the form of a circle divided into four separate sections or bearing a multiple projection of an image. (Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Ed.)

This is a blog of photographs that I have transformed via multiple “reflections” into images that remind me of the patterned symmetry of far eastern mandalas. These could be called “photo mandalas” or, as I like to call them, mandalagraphs. The blog’s first post was on September 1, 2012.

Most of the mandalagraphs are derived from nature, but some involve people or are of man-made objects of one kind or another. Unless otherwise noted, all the original photos are mine.”

Today’s mandalagraph might look familiar to you?