I know I have a love for mandalas. No other way to explain why I've made three of them in less than a year's time. It started with Re-Mandala at the Spring Flowers festival at Campbellltown Art Centre in October 2005. Then came How long is forever? at the 12th Asian Biennale at Dhaka, Bangladesh. Both of these mandalas, built on floor in a semi-covered area using found objects and spring flowers (October is spring in Australia whereas April it is in Bangladesh). Having an approximate diameter of 5 meters, both looked stunning from a distance and luckily the architecture of both the place offered such a view. The third one, called My private mandala and built indoors at this year's Environmental Art Prize at the Tap Gallery beginning of June 06, was a much smaller affair. It measured about 1.5 meters in diameter and consisted of objects I stacked after an autumnal cleanup of my computer room and bedroom.

Here on this page dedicated to junk mandalas, I've put them all together at one place. If you have a thing to say about them or are a mandala maker yourself, (speaking of which, I long for the day when I'll be able to meet Buddhist monks in Tibet and see the coloured sand-mandalas they make), please drop me a line or send photos of mandalas you have made.

Spring Flowers
Re-Mandala	Re-Mandala	Re-Mandala
12th Asian Biennale
Long shot	How long is forever?	Detail
Extreme Close-up
Tap Environmental Award 2006
My Private Mandala	Detail	A second angle