Mandala: a geometric figure representing the universe
Chavez creates what she calls her Mandalas. She makes these twisted mazes by hand, one line at a time which she finds to be a meditative and simple process. Here you will find examples of these tangled tessalations throughout her work created either digitally using overlaying shapes, hand drawn, or by using some method of printmaking.
Chavez has been fascinated with mandalas since 2016 when she made her first one in an intro design class at her local community college. Her first ever iteration of a mandala was the one pictured above in gold and blue. From then on, her journals were constantly littered with small bubbles of pattern and movement created by lines to entire pages of her favorite repeating pattern. It wasn’t until 2022 when a print professor at university saw one of the many designs she had created in her art journal and challenged her to go bigger in every way. Soon Chavez was studying the history of mandalas and envisioning her twisted designs from new perspectives. Chavez has a few things up her sleeve when it comes to her mandalas and is excited to expand on this topic until it is exhausted.
