Let's continue with the mandala book! 🤗

Happy day, afternoon, or evening! Today I bring you a new post for this beautiful Hive Art community, in which I continue to share my process with the mandala book. As soon as I saw this design, I remembered all the patterns my grandmother used to knit when she was alive. She was great at sewing and made beautiful pieces. Above all, the center of the mandala is what brought back those memories of watching her knit chains and mend the occasional dress that was requested of her 🙌.

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“The Mandala of Living Memory” is what I decided to call today's design, following the idea I mentioned at the beginning about happy memories, which represent our best experiences and undoubtedly had an impact on us in some way. Because there are paintings that are not only seen, but also felt.

With its concentric shapes and vibrant colors, it is a metaphor for our memory. Each stroke and each tone contains a moment of what happened and an emotion that once inhabited us. Invisible patterns that shaped part of who we are today.

Every laugh, every hug, every silence, or shared discovery does not fade away; it transforms and becomes petals of a mandala, expanding from the center of our personal history, projecting itself into the present to shape us without us noticing.

That trip to the beach, that climb up Mount Ávila, that conversation with someone special who made us feel understood for the first time, the aroma of a meal that connected us with our roots... all those transcendental moments intertwine like the colors of the design, creating an “emotional geometry,” so to speak, that sustains and vindicates us.

Every time a memorable memory comes to mind, we are tracing a new outline of our being, which shines with the intensity and warmth that characterize the color yellow. As we walk the path of life, a mandala is created: full of experiences and everything we have learned in each curved or abstract line that appears.

Circles often signify cycles that we close as we move forward, cycles from which we have already learned something: a new lesson, a spiritual awakening, a new craft, a new language, a new tool for our emotional intelligence that will propel us forward... the possibilities are endless, like the “precision” of art.

I put it in quotation marks because it is not a matter of “perfection” or “measurement”; art usually happens at just the right moment. It is precise when we express what we feel and give free rein to our subconscious. It happens when we let the ‘witch’ or the “wizard” out and allow them to do whatever they want, without ties or social constructs.

That's why today's Mandala brought back all those memories of my grandmother. I know that if she had been born in a less complicated time for women and had also had an easier childhood and youth, she would have devoted herself more to her true passions. She would not have deprived the world of her skill with her hands, her cooking, or her voice.

And you, what have you stopped showing the world? 🌺

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I hope you like design number 7, I send you a hug. Thanks for your support always 🙌.

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Below, I show you the process of how I paint it little by little until I achieve a stunning color pattern 💥.

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The first mandala I made from the book can be found at this link ✅