31. Mandala 1980

This "Mandala" by Oleksandr Aksinin is made from ink on paper, a testament to the artist's incredible patience and vision. Look at the density of marks, a meditative process, a world that has come into being through tiny, repetitive gestures. I imagine Aksinin hunched over this work, each line a breath, a thought, an offering. The mandala form itself suggests a journey, a map of the psyche, but rendered here with a touch that feels almost like cartography – mapping an interior world. The monochromatic palette of greens gives the piece a sense of unity, yet within that, there’s endless variation. It reminds me of Paul Klee’s playful abstraction mixed with the obsessive detail of outsider art. You know, it feels like a coded language that invites us to decode its secrets, to ponder the nature of consciousness and creation itself. It makes you wonder, doesn't it? How can something so small contain so much?