Andy Harper 'The Mandalas'

“Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is
before our eyes - I mean the universe - but we cannot understand
it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in
which it is written. The book is written in mathematical language,
and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical
figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a
single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a
dark labyrinth.”
Galileo
Despite ancient and numerous theological associations a
mandala is traditionally seen as representative of reality, as
lived. It is often a representation of wholeness and a model to
aid reflection on the organizational structure of life itself. A form
of diagram that shows our relation to the infinite that extends
beyond and within various minds & bodies from the micro to
the macro. The microcosm / macrocosm analogy refers to a
perennial view which posited a structural similarity between ‘us’
and the ‘cosmos’ as a whole where truths about the nature of the
cosmos may be inferred from truths about our human nature, and
vice versa. German polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz stated
that “this interconnection or accommodation of all created things
to each other, and each to all the others, brings it about that
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