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Broken but beautiful - Mandala

 How beautiful or ugly can it be to be broken? Broken things are very much ignored and worse are with humans, broken humans are alienated and kept at bay making them worse. The theory of broken but beautiful has been in the limelight for long a time now but how much do we really understand it and if we understand it then are we brave enough to confront it or lend a shoulder to the broken person? Answers will be the same as the number of people questioned! 

Here I am trying to compose art with this concept and how it can be a real deal to tackle. Time is the master, it tests you and asks for unbelievable choices. They say bad times either break you or make you and rightly so, but it is always an individual's choice to choose between being broken or being broken but beautiful.

This Mandala is like a human life cycle, it is born and since then it does all the things possible, completing one circle only to enter another which is even more complex, and surviving on hope and love often mending small gaps and mistakes. With each move, we humans try to add in everything we can to make life easier but we all know what happens is quite an opposite, our plans fail and hearts break but we keep going. In order to fix the things we add more people like mandala adds more details and we keep moving and somehow life continues. This is us, a complex and layered species!

In this Mandala like a life cycle from a dot to its full-fledged version, it is filled with minute details and possibilities. But, a time arrives when the gap is so large and it looks so broken that it must be filled with colors and extra energy in order to keep it alive and going, and when one chooses to add these colors in life during crisis it gets filled with new dimensions and ecstasy. 

This is my mandala and me, broken but beautiful. Fill colors live full. When you feel like giving up or the gap has increased way too much, try adding new things in life which can be a simple thing like making a bed or writing a letter and while you fill your life with new horizons always try to fix the matters and most importantly be kind. Kind to yourself and others as well.

Click the link to read my other posts on Mandala and art: https://artkizubani.blogspot.com/2020/08/mandala-in-abstract.html

Keep creating. In the comments below do tell how do you approach this concept and what is your way out. Broken but beautiful!







  

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  1. UnknownSeptember 3, 2020 at 8:39 PM

    Damn what a vibes from this art 🔥💛

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  2. UnknownNovember 9, 2020 at 9:40 AM

    Everyone is broken. But as you said we all have a choice. And at the end we all grow up. Before reading this things of yours i never knew anything about mandala. But now i can relate so many things of my life to mandala. Concept is good and now i think mandala is like a sea. In order to understand mandala i need to start reading from the first writing.

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