Tuesday, September 18, 2012

This mandala melds religion and technology







Mandalas often feature a circle in the center of the drawing with four surrounding gates.




(Credit: Leonardo Ulian)

Italian artist Leonardo Ulian's mesmerizing piece "Technological mandala 02," doesn't look like the average sacred art commonly seen in Buddhism and Hinduism.




Ulian, based in London, created the mandala with hundreds of microchips, circuits, resistors, and other components found within everyday electronics.




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"I wanted to show what has been hidden from the eyes of the consumer, representing electronic circuits as extraordinary objects where the perfection of the design can become almost something ethereal," Ulian said of his techy art in an interview with Colossal.




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