Holding fragments together

We live in the age of hyperspecialization, where everyone, with his/her own doing, feels an unrelated molecule, centrifugated from every center, other than the heterodirected one of achieving a productive goal, aimed at capitalizing the work, exiled from any potential search for a Whole, perhaps nebulous, elusive, chaotic.

Creating Mandala, is a therapeutic action that is played entirely in the total attention of the gesture, respecting the rhythm of the breath, the quiet opening, the waiting full of curiosity for the non-predetermined image that will emerge. This becomes an action that embraces, that welcomes in a non-pre-fixed drawing many scattered particela, drops of color, which find in the canvas a factor of cohesion, in its center a point of irradiation where the gaze stops ceaselessly on lines that spread and then return to converge, on crumbs which, together, form a Whole, the picture.

Embracing a Whole and letting it escape. Collecting it in acrylic pours and seeing that it is composed of many units, each different from the others, a microcosm in an ever-changing macrocosm, always composed in a very new form, where nothing is given once and for all, even the refractions of light, changing, accordino to the lighting, the time of day.

Creating a Mandala and observing it is a constant meditation on the need to keep the fragments together and, at the same time, to let them be, unique and unrepeatable. A non-violent order, the need for an overall look, but also, at the same time, the space for individuality, for the singular infinity in the composition of a Whole, never given once and for all.