by atmara | Mar 20, 2017 | Art, Digital Mandalas, Freedom, Mandala Monday, Mandalas
Freedom is the theme and name that this new set of mandalas have given me as their name. Throughout 2016 I created mandala after mandala. Periodically I would go through them and see which ones wanted to stay in a collection permanently and discard the others. I never know what I am going to create when I sit down to do one, and while they always seem to want to be published as a set, I never know what the name or theme is until they are all done. In early 2017 I began the final work of printing each image to see which would work well in print (what looks good on a computer screen doesn’t always translate to print) and see which images really wanted to be out in the world as a set.
There are now 30 images, whose name, Mandalas from the Heart of Freedom, popped into my head as I was finalizing them. You can see them all on my gallery page, https://nwcreations.com/galleries/mandalas/, or just view and savor a few as I release them on this blog over the coming weeks.
I hope you find inspiration and joy in interacting with them.
Mandalas from the Heart of Freedom No. 1
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Mandalas from the Heart of Freedom No. 2
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Mandalas from the Heart of Freedom No. 3
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Mandalas from the Heart of Freedom No. 4
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Mandalas from the Heart of Freedom No. 5
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Mandalas from the Heart of Freedom No. 6
Artwork © Atmara Rebecca Cloe
Prints and gifts of these mandalas are now available at:
http://www.zazzle.com/New_World_Creations?rf=238526469533245868
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by atmara | Mar 16, 2017 | Freedom, Healing, Peace, TED, TED Talks, Truth, Video
According to TED.com: “How did a young man born into a high caste in India come to free 83,000 children from slavery? Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Kailash Satyarthi offers a surprising piece of advice to anyone who wants to change the world for the better: Get angry at injustice. In this powerful talk, he shows how a lifetime of peace-making sprang from a lifetime of outrage. “
“Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi has been leading the global fight against child slavery for over three decades. As the founder of a grassroots nonprofit, Bachpan Bachao Andolan, or Save Childhood Movement, he has rescued more than 80,000 Indian children to date from various forms of exploitation from child labor to child trafficking.”
“Kailash’s work has involved organizing almost weekly raid, rescue and recovery missions on workplaces that employ and enslave children. Since 2001, Satyarthi’s has risked his own life to rescue these children and has convinced families in more than 300 Indian villages to avoid sending their children to work, and instead putting them in school.”
“Satyarthi’s has also managed to grab and retain the world’s attention on the problem. He organized the Global March Against Child Labor in the 1990s to raise awareness and free millions of children shackled in various forms of modern slavery. His activism was also instrumental in the adoption of Convention No. 182 by the International Labour Organization, a statue that’s become a guideline for many governments on child labor.”
“In 2014, he and Malala Yousafzai were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for ‘their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.’ ”
Enjoy this thought provoking talk.
Kailash Satyarthi: How to make peace? Get angry
For those of you not familiar with TED Talks here is a brief summery from www.ted.com: “TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences — the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK each summer — TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and Open TV Project, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize”
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