Mandala

Real-time software (Processing)
2017 +ongoing

 

 

 

In various cultures around the world, mandalas are used for focus, meditation, spiritual inquiry and to establish a sacred space. They’re also just really pretty.

 

 

Mandala is a wildflower for the algorithmic age.

The custom software relies heavily on random chance to digitally paint its own “non/sacred geometries”.

 

 

Every 15 seconds, the system captures an image of itself, memorializing the moment as a new mandala, unique from all others.

 

 

Each Mandala is digitally printed in a single edition, “1 of 1”, making each one Mandala of a kind.

 

Image generated by Mandala

 

View a short documentation video of Mandala running in real-time.

Exhibition history:

  • Gorge on Art, Victoria, BC (2022)

Prints are available online at Society6.