'Letter mandalas' - pattern maps woven from units of latin alphabet - a playful exploration of modular systems, taking letterforms as building elements.
Fractal: a never-ending pattern. Fractals are infinitely complex patterns that are self-similar across different scales. They are created by repeating a simple process over and over in an ongoing feedback loop. Driven by recursion, fractals are images of dynamic systems - the pictures of chaos.
Mandala: a spiritual and/or ritual geometric configuration of symbols or a map. In modern use, a 'mandala' has become a generic term for any diagram, chart or geometric pattern that represents the cosmos metaphysically or symbolically; a time-microcosm of the universe, though it originally meant to represent wholeness and a model of the organizational structure of life itself - a cosmic diagram that shows us our relation to the infinite, the world that extends beyond and within our minds and bodies.
Mandalas may be employed for focusing attention of practitioners, as a spiritual guidance tool, for establishing a sacred space and as an aid to meditation and trance induction.
A guide for creating letter mandalas:
A couple of letter mandalas, K executed in 2h 12min (7 stages), L - in 1h 19min (10 stages):
Creating patterns from the mandalas:
