Bruno
Sanfilippo explores the land of the MANDALAS created
from his photographs of natural objects and then digitally manipulated
to produce the finished piece. The word 'mandala' be comes from Sanskrit,
the classical Indian language. Loosely translated to mean "circle", a
mandala is far more than a simple shape. It represents wholeness, and
can be seen as a model for the organizational structure of life itself
a cosmic diagram that reminds us of our relation to the infinite, the
world that extends both beyond and within our bodies and minds. Mandala
can also be used to embellish a space, as a support for meditation and
contemplation. It has always helped us to focus in the deepest quietness
of our being.
The 'circle with a center' pattern is the basic structure of creation that is reflected from the micro to the macro in the world as we know it. It is a pattern found in nature and is seen in biology, geology, chemistry, physics and astronomy.On our planet, living things are made of cells and each cell has a nucleus all display circles with centers. The crystals that form ice, rocks, and mountains are made of atoms. Each atom is a mandala. Within the Milky Way galaxy is our solar system and within our solar system, is Earth. Each is a mandala that is part of a larger mandala. Flowers, the rings found in tree trunks and the spiraling outward and inward of a snail's shell all reflect the primal mandala pattern. Wherever a center isfound radiating outward and inward, there is wholeness a mandala.
"I had to abandon the idea of the superordinate position of the ego. I saw that everything, all paths I had been following, all steps I had taken, were leading back to a single point namely, to the mid-point. It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the centre. It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the centre, to individuation. I knew that in finding the mandala as an expression of the self I had attained what was for me the ultimate" C.G. Jung
"The 'squaring of the circle' is one of the many archetypal motifs which form the basic patterns of our dreams and fantasies. But it is distinguished by the fact that it is one of the most important of them from the functional point of view. Indeed, it could even be called the archetype of wholeness" C.G. Jung
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