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	Other Galleries Spirit Tokens Gallery Spirit Tokens II Gallery Collage Mandalas Gallery Mandalas Gallery Posters Gallery Gates Gallery Art of the Books	Mandala Gallery Michael Lyons digital art meditative practice click to go to enlargment exploration Pushing the Big steps magic man, 2001, archival ink on acid-free paper 2' x 3' click to go to enlargment exploration Mandal of the Patriarchs of Modern Culture, 2001, archival ink on acid-free paper 2' x 3' These artworks are enlargements of just a few of the mandalas associated with the novels. Click an image to go into more detail about the specifics. Mandala designs are a kind of integrative meditation on the self, or the source from which all things emerge, or just a dwelling into which to organize your feelings. The mandalas illustrate philosophical concepts. Each artwork is a complex reflection on how the self is pulled by seductions of freedom and repulsed by barriers and rules. The dynamic state of the background is seen as confined by the iron grid of the gate. These artworks were generated on a computer using various algorithms for shape and phased color synthesis. Then rendered into postscript enabling them to be printed at any page size and printer resolution. Being spiritual artworks Mandalas should not have have titles nor be signed. The titles here are reference the processes generating the art. Tao as synthesizer pushing through hexagram gates, 2001, archival ink on acid-free paper 2' x 2 8 -fold way of the self, 2001, archival ink on acid-free paper 2' x 3'