Making images feels like I am in wordless conversation with natural elements far more profound than anything I could create myself. My work with flowers connects me deeply with their minute particulars, the building blocks from which everything generates. There is something prayer-like about both shooting and post-processing. When the mandala-making process is at its best, I feel I’m no more the creator of these images than someone who tunes the radio is the creator of whatever comes through the speakers. The present work is inspired by the work of Georgia O’Keeffe, Andreas Feininger, and Harold Feinstein, with whom I briefly studied. These 100 Flower Mandalas are part of an ever-expanding series of Flower Mandalas. (http://www.davidbookbinder.com/flowermandalas/about/) My personal motivation in creating these images was to heal from a decade of physical and emotional trauma, the consequence of a near-fatal event in Albany, New York, in 1993. I began this project shortly after I bought my first digital camera and found myself shooting patterns of color and light, rather than the people and buildings I had shot in my black-and-white days. I learned to manipulate the images, hoping at first merely to improve them, but soon realizing that once an image file was on my hard drive, I could do anything I wanted with it. I tend to work on several mandalas at once. On each piece, I spend anywhere from a few hours to a sequence of several-hour sessions spread out over a couple of months. The experience is reminiscent of meditation. My choice of the hexagram (the Star of David, "beloved" in Hebrew) as the organizing shape for these mandalas was subconscious, but I believe this choice was no accident. In many traditions, the Star of David, composed of two overlapping triangles, represents the reconciliation of opposites male/female, fire/water, and so on. Their combination symbolizes unity and harmony.... (https://www.behance.net/gallery/864331/Fifty-Two-Flower-Mandalas) undefined

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