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Original fileMandalas and Crafts at the Budapest Mineral Fair
Ásványbörze 2015, Budapest, 189
About This Work
The image captures a commercial display stall filled with colorful, geometrically patterned mandalas painted on circular and square panels. Various metal bells are suspended alongside the artwork using hooks and chains, while additional landscape and abstract paintings are arranged on a metal grid background. The scene is brightly lit with a mixture of decorative religious-style art and metallic craft objects typical of a mineral or artisan fair.
The work reflects the contemporary synthesis of New Age spirituality and global craft markets, where sacred geometry and mandala forms are repurposed as decorative commodities.
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C.G. Jung
The use of mandalas as a focus for meditation and psychological integration stems from Jung's studies on their universality in religious art.