I See Mandalas In Open Sliced Fruits

I’m a biotechnology student who happens to be very curious and passionate about art. My dream is to fuse this two areas, science and art, which I think they have so much to learn with each other. I always have ideas jumping into my mind and, last summer, it came to me the concept of mandalas. They have been depicted in various ways and used by several civilizations through time. Used as meditation objects, cure symbols, mystic elements. I personally love the concept of the sand mandalas from the Tibetan monks. Those very intricate patterns and colours made with tiny sand grains and, at the end, all is vanished. So, I started to see this patterns in ordinary objects and also in nature. For me, nature itself as is own geometry, patterns, sometimes simple, sometimes complex, little details... I started looking to open slices of fruit and vegetables and I couldn´t stop seeing this richness, and so I created this humble project to celebrate nature’s beauty.

[The construction]

For the construction of these images, I sliced fresh fruits to obtain the based images. Then, with available online software (anyone can draw a mandala skeleton from online software) I designed the mandala pattern. Next, I joined the pattern to the base photograph and did some image alterations also with available online software. As the sliced fruits were so patient models I asked them one last favour: if they could dance for me. They did and mandala fruit gifs happened. I don’t have digital art skills and I am no photographer, but I wanted to share my vision with you because I think art only has meaning when shared and discussed with others.