Facial Mandala - Photograph by Mohd Irman Ismail,

112 – Palmanova Mandala

And now for something completely different I give you a design map of Palmanova, Italy founded and built in the late 1500’s. From what I gather, they designed the city as a fortress with the intention of it being a Utopia.

111 – Thread Mandala

I found this cute wreath project on the Fabric Textile Warehouse web site. What a fun way to make use of old, neglected spools of thread…come on, you know you have a shoe box full of varying lengths of thread laying around the house somewhere.

110 – Mystery Mandala

Oregon artist, Jeff Hess, likes for people to experience his art/photography without actually knowing what it is or what’s going on. I found this out when I asked him for more information about this object that I found as part of his “In Pursuit of Gravity” collection. He’d rather we enjoy it instead of trying to figure it out.

Passion Flower Mandala - photo by Jim Casper

109 – Passion Flower Mandala

While checking through my facebook news feed, I spotted this photo of a passion flower taken by my Floridian friend, Jim Casper. The colors and complexity of the blossom immediately caught my attention.

Zeugma Mandala - photo by Zeugma Mosiac on Flckr

108 – Zeugma Mandala

This amazing Roman mosaic floor can be viewed at the Gaziantep Zeugma Mosaic Museum in Turkey. The 90,000-square-foot museum features a 7,500-square-foot exhibition hall and is the world’s largest mosaic museum. From the featured image we have an idea of its size.