COVID MANDALAS ECO-ART GALLERY
This global gallery celebrates the wisdom and healing power of nature and creative expression from the year 2020 and ongoing as we navigate the COVID pandemic
Mandala' comes from the Sanskrit word ‘circle’
Mandalas are usually round with intricate symmetrical patterns and shapes.
They often start in the centre and work outwards.
“Each person’s life is like a mandala – a vast, limitless circle.
We stand in the center of our own circle, and everything we see, hear and think forms the mandala of our life.”
- Pema Chodron
Throughout history mandalas have been used in different cultures to represent a spiritual connection with the universe.
Mandalas help us to re-establish and strengthen our relationships within the natural world and ourselves.
"The ancient art form can help remind us of our relation to the infinite,
the world that extends both beyond and within our bodies and minds."
- Dr. Theresa Sweeney, Eco-Art Therapy
Mandalas are usually round with intricate symmetrical patterns and shapes.
They often start in the centre and work outwards.
“Each person’s life is like a mandala – a vast, limitless circle.
We stand in the center of our own circle, and everything we see, hear and think forms the mandala of our life.”
- Pema Chodron
Throughout history mandalas have been used in different cultures to represent a spiritual connection with the universe.
Mandalas help us to re-establish and strengthen our relationships within the natural world and ourselves.
"The ancient art form can help remind us of our relation to the infinite,
the world that extends both beyond and within our bodies and minds."
- Dr. Theresa Sweeney, Eco-Art Therapy
You are invited to participate...
No art experience is necessary!
WHEN: Whenever suits you for as long as COVID lockdowns exist.
WHERE: Anywhere. With respect to the current COVID lockdown regulations in your local area
1. Subscribe to Greensong Kinfolk (Optional)
2. Enjoy collecting consented *natural entities outdoors or playing indoors with them.
3. Focus mindfully as you place the *natural entities to form the shape of a mandala.
Consider prompts as you create:
4. Share an image with a few words or a short written reflection via the Kinfolk Facebook group page and tag Deb/Greensong, or email image and reflection.
5. Optional: Attend one of the online Kinfolk gatherings to meet others and share experiences.
*Please collect mindfully, playing with the idea of respectfully asking for consent to interact with the natural entities. (Or following the Natural Systems Thinking Process) This enables us to understand that we may be unconsciously harming or taking from their role within natural systems. This means considering not taking from alive plant parts or flowers unless they are knocked off a plant or flower, or have consented and are in abundance. With insects and insect eating birds on a steep decline world-wide this is important consideration. Quite often the plant or flower is needed by insects and wildlife and to feed the plant you find them near as mulch or compost. You may like to create a wildlife garden to assist the systems of life around us!
“Whenever full consent is not present, we cannot achieve our full potential. Consent nourishes and supports the roots for individuality and cooperation.” (Dr. Michael Cohen, Reconnecting With Nature, 2007)
No art experience is necessary!
WHEN: Whenever suits you for as long as COVID lockdowns exist.
WHERE: Anywhere. With respect to the current COVID lockdown regulations in your local area
1. Subscribe to Greensong Kinfolk (Optional)
2. Enjoy collecting consented *natural entities outdoors or playing indoors with them.
3. Focus mindfully as you place the *natural entities to form the shape of a mandala.
Consider prompts as you create:
- What do you love and appreciate about these natural entities? Savour them, explore with as many senses as you can.
- Where did they come from?
- What role do they play in our world?
- What will they evolve into?
- What are you finding challenging today?
- Note what feelings come to you while you are creating?
- How does this experience translate into words for you?
- What do you think or feel 'Nature' is saying to you?
- Can you leave your mandala in this location and only take away photographs?
4. Share an image with a few words or a short written reflection via the Kinfolk Facebook group page and tag Deb/Greensong, or email image and reflection.
5. Optional: Attend one of the online Kinfolk gatherings to meet others and share experiences.
*Please collect mindfully, playing with the idea of respectfully asking for consent to interact with the natural entities. (Or following the Natural Systems Thinking Process) This enables us to understand that we may be unconsciously harming or taking from their role within natural systems. This means considering not taking from alive plant parts or flowers unless they are knocked off a plant or flower, or have consented and are in abundance. With insects and insect eating birds on a steep decline world-wide this is important consideration. Quite often the plant or flower is needed by insects and wildlife and to feed the plant you find them near as mulch or compost. You may like to create a wildlife garden to assist the systems of life around us!
“Whenever full consent is not present, we cannot achieve our full potential. Consent nourishes and supports the roots for individuality and cooperation.” (Dr. Michael Cohen, Reconnecting With Nature, 2007)
According to Jung, mandalas symbolize "a safe refuge of inner reconciliation and wholeness." They have the potential to call forth something universal within.... And at the same time, they give us an experience of wholeness amid the chaos of every day life, making the "sacred circle" one of the very coolest art therapy interventions for both soothing the soul and meeting oneself. -Psychology Today
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THANK YOU
I acknowledge and pay our respects to the first nations people of our various countries we live and create on, their elders, past and present.
I also respect the role our ancestors play in our participation and respectful intention right here, right now.
We also gratefully honour the other-than-human entities.
I also respect the role our ancestors play in our participation and respectful intention right here, right now.
We also gratefully honour the other-than-human entities.
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