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Time-Lapse Video of Sophora Secundiflora Mandala
Community-Based Public Art Installation Using 10,000 Hand-Collected Seeds
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Sophora Secundiflora Mandala
Every year, Texas State Galleries celebrates distinguished alumni of the School of Art and Design with an exhibition of selected works. This year, the Galleries presents a solo-exhibition of large-scale wall installations by alumna Shalena White. White’s Seed and Rock Mandalas reconsider conventional notions of preciousness by embracing the potential of raw materials, materials so removed in today’s technology-obsessed culture. In so doing, her works inspire a reverence for the sacred nature of seemingly mundane substances, and the information they reveal about cultural histories and the materials’ physical origins.
Sophora Secundiflora Mandala
Approximately 10,000 Texas mountain laurel seeds, 18k gold leaf and sewing pins
120” x 120” x .5”
2019
Texas State Galleries
Time-lapse Video by Eric Acuna