About The Joy of Design Mandala Series Puzzles

You might be familiar with my The Joy of Design acrylic painting series, which is ongoing with currently 43 completed original paintings in it. If you are not familiar with these originals, I invite you to take a look at my The Joy of Design Series Originals Gallery here at FAA/Pixels. All of these paintings can hang in any of the eight directions either alone or in groupings with each other. They are all created with pure joy of expression that flows from my heart through my hands to my brush and onto the canvas.These paintings are all abstract and semi-abstract. They are organic, figurative and geometric abstractions and they range from 6 x 6 to 10 x 10 inches in size. Future paintings may introduce other measurements in square format. Anything is possible and this remains to be seen. All of The Joy of Design Mandala Series Puzzles are created with high resolution scans of the original paintings. Currently there are six completed TJOD Mandala Series Puzzles, with nine arrangements in each and I have just completed number 2 arrangement in The Joy of Design Mandala Series Puzzle 7, so, there are seven more arrangements for me to create in Puzzle 7. The nine arrangements in each series are completed by arranging a set of chosen scans over and over again in different ways to create variations of what is possible with the chosen set of scans. I see this process as very symbolic. Human beings tend to view any chosen circumstance in one way and rarely play with the factors to see what else might be possible. In the Mandala Puzzles, I deliberately take on viewing other possibilities and create different outcomes by altering the placement of the 64 individual panels that built the bigger picture. This allows me to see things differently, since what is placed next to each other defines the illusions that show up in these mandalas. I see this as creative play with some delicious eyecandy that hopefully empowers others as well to look differently than the way we are used to looking and seeing. Mind is a powerful tool and hopefully it will stay flexible and not become stagnant. In order to create a better world, we need to create better visions and change the way we are used to looking at things. The Joy of Design Mandala Series Puzzles are created to encourage creative abstract thinking. As a matter of fact I would love to find a way to create an alterable puzzle play with this series of digitally collaged acrylic paintings. Much more is possible than using the scans I have chosen to create nine variations of each puzzle. I see the potential as totally limitless and not bound by any representative forms, like puzzles usually are. I myself have already created hundreds of digital collages by using and also altering the original art in The Joy of Design Series. I invite you to contact me, if you have any questions or might be interested in creating digital puzzle games with the originals in the TJOD series of paintings.