What is Mandala for you?

Mandala and it's significance can differ from person to person, for me Mandala art is that corner of life where you feel everything will be okay and things will shape itself. It is a space which allows me freedom and never judges my repetition. Simultaneously for someone else it might just another form of design or it might be a thing for killing time for person sitting next to me in metro. Well, that is the beauty of Mandala; you can derive and understand and practice it the way you want.

I have seen many mothers teaching their daughters this art and I often question myself why there so less male participants in this art form, in India this art form is mostly considered gharelu i.e. which remains in home. Digging further into this I got know that in several parts of the country Mandala is practiced by brides to be, these girls go on to hand embroidery Mandala on rather big piece of cloth and later they take this with them as a memory. Here we are not digging into gender roles but the question is pertinent. The art itself never discriminates than why should we? click on this link to read interesting things about Mandala https://artkizubani.blogspot.com/2020/08/mandala-is-more-than-what-we-know.html

The picture above is of the Mandala I created within a square and later erased the boundary, this turned out to be a different form, it is Mandala yet it looks incomplete until you decide to look at it for some time and realize that it is complete, it has a definite shape and size. This is Mandala for me, hours of gazing and coming up with a new story. Writers reading this take it from me, your writer's block can be healed with Mandala, it helps the creative juices to flow down rapidly as it provokes thoughts inside thoughts. Mandala knows no bounds so should you. Take a pen and paper try it out.

In the comment section below do let me know your thoughts on Mandala and this blog. Till then happy creating.

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