Peace Passes All Understanding
If Butterflies are Free
Then What Are We
Seedsong, Mother Earth
Copyright 2006 Robin de Lavis
All Rights Reserved by Artist.
Flowers, Not Bombs
Narrow is the Gate
Wide is The Way
Rose Window
Doorway Home
Peace and Transformation Mandalas
Flowers. Not Bombs
Launch
Launch Redux
To the Garden Wings Shelter Comes
I began by taking the image of one bomb, Truckee, and embedding it into Mandala like images made from elements of my paintings, films and photo-based works.

Very little conscious thought went into this process. Instead, the images created a life of their own.

The butterfly in the images flew into my studio one day and spent three hours on the windowsill. I considered it a fortunate visitor and incorporated it into the mandalas.

Truckee, 210 kilograms, dropped at 5:27 am on the 9th of June, 1962,
on Christmas Island

As I continued to develop the series, the images became more like ominous landscapes.
Lately they have assumed a different kind of archetypal imagery.
Getting It
Evolution
The Road To Home