Carpets of Sawdust, Buddhist Mandalas & Navajo Sand Painting!

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 We started with Alfrombra de Asserin (carpets of sawdust) then members of our group suggested we look at Mandalas (Leslie Anne had seen them being built) and others had seen museum versions, and finally Navajo Sand Painting. So we went down the rabbit hole together!



Top of the Day: Some of the bright pigment saturated sawdust used 
in the creation of Alfrombra de Asserin

Wikipedia descriptions of the Sawdust Carpets (there are pics as well as) -- link -- 

A google search of the Sawdust Carpets -- link -- 

More of them -- link -- 

Asserin flores (sawdust flowers carpets) -- link -- 

More images (click the arrow on the side of the image) -- link -- 

Alfrombra de Asserin video -- link -- 

Alfombra de Asserin video (another one) -- link -- 


Buddhist Mandala video -- link -- 

Kiki gave us this link to an exhibit of Mandalas -- link -- 

A biochemistry group's visit to see a Buddhist Mandala, also from Kiki, and brief descriptions about what color does to the brain -- link -- 

From the exhibit that Kiki showed us, here is a video creating the Mandalas in this touring show -- link -- 

Phenomenal videos of the making of Tibetan Buddhist Mandalas!!! -- link -- 

More images of Sand Mandalas -- link -- 

History of Mandalas with some images -- link -- 


Navajo sand painting google search -- link -- 

Small entry about Navajo Sand Painting -- link -- 

Larger link to a big page about Navajo Sand Paintings -- link -- 

Navajo Sand Painter Herbert Ben -- link -- 





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