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Mandala #11 (2009) by Caomin XIE
78 " x 108"
Oil on canvas

My interpretation of the Buddhist’s idea is all through my recent paintings of “The Ruins’ Mandala”. Mandala first appeared in Tantric Buddhism as a form of sand painting. In the making of Mandala, different colored sand processed in metempsychosis like pictures changing in a kaleidoscope. It embodies the Buddhist concepts of creation, maintenance, destruction and emptiness. Mandala also is a kind of visual presentation of the Holographism. It reflects the relationship between happenchance and eternal return of the whole universe; not only we can search out the information of universal existence in the detail of chance; we can also find contingence chance in the existence of the whole universe. When we are confronting the stupendous creative and destructive powers of today’s technology, for me, Mandala is the best visual metaphor of our world.


 

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