Circles - Mandalas - Radial Symmetry XI (Heavenly Bodies)

behold this fool who, in the month of June,
having of certain stars and planets heard,
rose very slowly in a tight balloon
until the smallening world became absurd

E. E. Cummings

Europa

Circles - Mandalas - Radial Symmetry X

The ideas need not be complex. Most ideas that are successful
are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the
appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable.

Sol LeWitt

John Latham, Full Stop, 1961, Acrylic on canvas

Circles - Mandalas - Radial Symmetry IX

With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft

Henry Matisse


Robert Mangold, Ring Image K, 2010

Circles - Mandalas - Radial Symmetry VIII

Now, however long a time may pass, according to the eternal laws governing
the combinations of this eternal play of repetition, all configurations
which have previously existed on this earth must yet meet, attract,
repulse, kiss, and corrupt each other again

Heinrich Heine



Jasper Johns, White Target, 1957



Jannis Kounellis, no title, 1999 (Etching on paper)

Haeckel's Visions

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted
with the memories and the dreams of Time.

H. P. Lovecraft

watch the video below

Circles - Mandalas - Radial Symmetry VII

The World is Bound With Secret Knots - Athanasius Kicher

Laura Splan, machine embroidered lace based on the influenza virus



Barbara Mungenast, Kreis #2, 2006



Sheila Gallagher, Sea Urchin Smoke Print, 2009

Circles - Mandalas - Radial Symmetry VI

Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts

Mary Judge, Oculus Series

Siobhan Liddell, Untitled, 2009



Max Ernst, Birth of a Galaxy, 1969

Ruth Asawa

"When you put a seed in the ground, it doesn't stop growing after eight hours. It keeps going every minute that it's in the earth. We, too, need to keep growing every moment of every day that we are on this earth." -- Ruth Asawa

Ruth Asawa, Star (galvanized wire), 1960

Circles - Mandalas - Radial Symmetry V

Time is the substance from which I am made.
Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river;
it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger;
it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Jorge Luis Borges

Laura Battle, Time Piece



Günther Uecker

Circles - Mandalas - Radial Symmetry IV

Beauty is truth, truth beauty — that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know

Trichodina pediculus



Burning Man 2010


Somewhere in Saudi Arabia (via Google Earth)

Circles - Mandalas - Radial Symmetry III

Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern
for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth
Marston Morse

Damien Hirst, Psalm Print: Exaudi, Domine (diamond dust), 2009



The Hermaphrodite



Denis Maurice, Scale Model for the Cupola of the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées

Nature by Numbers

Sand Art by Jim Denevan

Circles - Mandalas - Radial Symmetry II

Overcoming the Infinite

Tiny amoeba shell (picture from National Geographic Magazine)

Katina Kamatson, From Nine Flowers Series



Kirra Jamison, Not even i can save you

Circles - Mandalas - Radial Symmetry I

Infinity Visualized

 Arranged Diatom

Erwin Keustermans


 Bacteria art