Mandala: Explosions

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Video installation, found footage, layered Michael Bay films

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2020

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Drawing from action sequences in commercially successful, yet critically panned Michael Bay films, Mandala: Explosions consists of a large pulsating Buddhist mandala: an imaginary space that serves as a guiding template during meditative practices. Through strategies or irony, Mandala: Explosions explores cinematic special effects (explosions, gunfire, car chases) as a form of spiritual abstraction within Buddhist traditions that emphasize the mutable nature of the material universe.

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Exhibited at:

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Post-Meta, Arts Warehouse, Delray Beach, FL. August-September 2021.