Wish Mandala with Wish flags was created at the Annmarie Sculpture Garden, Dowell, MD. I asked visitors to create flags with their wishes. 830 people participated over 6 weeks. I used their flags as elements of the installation to create a stage like atmosphere within the forest grove.

Annmarie Sculpture Garden, Dowell, MD
Mandala  is about 20' diameter

​Egg is about 20" 
Found natural objects reflect the locality.

​Pine cones and Sweetgum tree (Liquidambar styraciflua) seed balls were everywhere on this Chesapeake Bay peninsula.

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​View from the south gate.
830 people enjoyed making their flags.

Wetland Mandala aims to gain transcendence through walking meditation. Mandalas give the participant a focal point to sense the interconnection of the universe and feel alive from within.

​Wetland Mandala was created at Espy Foundation, Oysterville, Washington

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​The guests practicing walking meditation. The Mandala gives the participants a focal point to have a connection to the land, therefore to the universe. 

​Found object materials were chosen to represent the locality. In the case of the Wetland Mandala, oyster shells, lichens, symplocarpus foetidus (Skunk cabbage or skunk flower),and  birch trees were abundant.

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​Another image of a participant practicing walking meditation on the piece. 

I-park, East Haddam, Connecticut

​People practicing walking meditation

All  materials were ​collected on site to reflect the location.

various wood, rocks, sand, lichen
​20' x 20'

​Overview

Cornucopia Art Center
Lanesboro, Minesota

Various wood, leaves, rocks, pebbles, 
15' x 15'

Cardinal ​red twig dogwood bush,  (Cornus sericea ‘Cardinal’)
was abundance in this southern Minnesota location. Rocks were collected from a river bed that goes through the site. 

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The mandala was assembled from indigenous plants and stones.

Various wood, leaves, leaves, rocks, and pebbles.

Bemis Creative Art Center, Omaha, Nebraska

The Mandala is surrounded by large scale paintings that create a consecrated atmosphere in the space.

There are folded pieces of paper containing the words of Buddha under small glass blocks. The glass blocks were found in the warehouse space of the Bemis Art Center, one of the more unusual "indigenous materials".

The audience practices walking meditation inside of the mandala and drop flower petals on the mandala.  The participants retrieve a message from where their flower petal lands. 

Back side ​view facing towards the entrance area

Djerassi  Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA

This interactive Mandala installation encourages audiences to reflect on  and refresh their soul. 

Participants perform walking meditation first, and then practice a self purification ceremony.

​various woods
18' x 18'

Self purification ceremony; Sprinkling drops of honey and milk, the symbol of body and soul, to four directions by flicking the feather of an eagle.

At the Bali Sprit Festival, Bali, Indonesia
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At the Social Engaged Buddhist Conference, Montague, MA
 I took the role of a monk and performed a mind transformation ritual.

Temporary mandala installation for Pray-fomance 2
paper ,silk flowers
10' x 10'

@ Jentel residency in Wyoming. This piece was made with the most minimalist approach. I carefully scouted the location, and chose the material with a focus on impermanence. At the end it was just ice accented with candles. The effect on the viewers reflected the quiet and austere way in which I fashioned the work, mainly by simply sweeping the surface of the frozen creek.

@ Jentel Residency Wyoming
This piece was made (unlike the Wish Mandala), with the most minimalist approach. I carefully scouted the location, and chose the material with a focus on impermanence. At the end it was just ice accented with candles. The effect on the viewers reflected the quiet and austere way in which I fashioned the work, mainly by simply sweeping the surface of the frozen creek.

@ Jentel Residency Wyoming
This piece was made (unlike the Wish Mandala), with the most minimalist approach. I carefully scouted the location, and chose the material with a focus on impermanence. At the end it was just ice accented with candles. The effect on the viewers reflected the quiet and austere way in which I fashioned the work, mainly by simply sweeping the surface of the frozen creek.

@ Jentel Residency Wyoming
This piece was made (unlike the Wish Mandala), with the most minimalist approach. I carefully scouted the location, and chose the material with a focus on impermanence. At the end it was just ice accented with candles. The effect on the viewers reflected the quiet and austere way in which I fashioned the work, mainly by simply sweeping the surface of the frozen creek.

@ Jentel Residency Wyoming
This piece was made (unlike the Wish Mandala), with the most minimalist approach. I carefully scouted the location, and chose the material with a focus on impermanence. At the end it was just ice accented with candles. The effect on the viewers reflected the quiet and austere way in which I fashioned the work, mainly by simply sweeping the surface of the frozen creek.