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Sacred Symbolic Art, Design & Architecture
Twelve Mandalas
(Set of Paintings, Ink and Water Color on Board, 1975)
All images © A T Mann 1999 World Rights in All Media
The paintings are mandalas based on major religious, philosophical and cosmological systems all created and organized using the square and the circle. They are related to the astrological signs by their qualities, numerology and symbolism. The paintings have been exhibited in London (1976, 1st Festival of Mind and Body), Copenhagen (Astrology House) and Majorca, published as cards (1975), published in many of my books (1979, 1986, 1993, 1995), published in magazines, and serialized in the Dutch journal BRES in the early 1980s. The original paintings are 48 x 66 cm. and are owned by a private collector on Majorca.
Additional text for the 12 Mandalas.
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Spiral Solar System
This design of the Spiral Solar System was made for my book "The Round Art" in 1979. I am offering high resolution prints 13" x 19" suitable for framing on archival Epson paper. You can pay by PayPal.
My 1978 drawing of "Nested Kepler Solids"
Painted Talismans
(Talisman Paintings, Ink and Water Color on Board)
I paint talismans to commission. The talismans focus energy, integrate disparate principles or influences, provide medititation mandalas for specific purposes or celebrate special occasions like weddings, birthdays, anniversaries or significant cosmic events. They are specially tailored to the individual(s) who will have and use them, attuned energetically and astrologically. All colors are coded magically and the images are derived from traditional medieval, Egyptian, Kabbalistic, Astrological, Alchemical, Rosicrucian and other mystical languages.
Email Tad Mann for information about talisman commissions
Garrett Lisi's revolutionary new Theory of Everything reflects the geometric structure of my mandalas and calendars. This elegant computer-generated model is beautiful and profound.
Kala Calendar 1973 Phenomenon Calendar insert 1979
Astrological Calendars
Galaxen Astrologisk Kalendar 1995 Phenomenon Calendar cover 1974
Beginning in 1972 I created astrological calendars for publication. The first KALA calendar (above, upper left) was done in 1972 in the US. When I moved to England in 1973 I became a Director of Phenomenon Publications and we made calendar books (above right and below) until 1981. After that time I did calendars on my own as single-page mandalas of great richness and complexity. In 1995 I made the Galaxen Astrologisk Kalendar (above left) in Copenhagen. The calendars are based on the astrological year of twelve signs and include many calendar systems (such as Islamic, Hebrew, Christian Saints Days, Chinese, Mayan, Aztec and others), often shown as concentric circles. This points up the true disconnection of our Western Civil Calendar from more natural planetary and natural cycles.
Kala Calendar 1980 Phenomenon Calendar Yearly Mandala 1974
A T Mann
– Architectural Design & Consultation
Jackson House Project, near Thy, Jylland, Denmark,
1994
Feng Shui "dragon" on the siteplan Jackson House, Jylland, Denmark
The Jackson House is an architectural design commission I accepted while living in Copenhagen, Denmark. The clients bought a large property that had for twenty years been the "World University," a live-in school of adult education. The existing building was a typical L-shaped Danish farm building. What is most unique and spectacular about the site is that it is adjacent to an ancient historical site with eight 5000-year-old megalithic burial mounds. (These mounds and their geometry can be seen on this partial plan of the site, which I symbolized by the earth dragon.) The solution was a stone and wood house with a crystal glass greenhouse that refracted the energy of the mounds, which was unique and satisfied the clients.
Feng Shui Mandala, 1978
See my feng shui/architectural solution
This is an beautiful embedded video from gratefulness.org and features a meditation by Brother David Steindl-Rast. Look out for two images of mine, a rotating rose window from Painton Cowen's book Rose Windows and a photograph I took at a stone circle in southern Sweden in 1994.
The Mandala Astrological Tarot
(Set of 72 tarot card paintings, ink and water color on board, 1986)
The Mandala Astrological Tarot cards were originally painted in 1972 when I returned from living in Morocco and India, and repainted at a large scale in 1986 for publication. They are circular mandala images within square cards. The cards may be rotated and placed on either of the four astrological angles: upright (MC), upside down (IC), leaning left (ASC) and leaning right (DSC). Each card is a stage-set or initiation chamber for a level in the process of achieving wholeness. All colors are coded magically and the images are derived from traditional medieval, Egyptian, Rosicrucian and other mystical languages.
High Priest Intersecting Trees of Life back Magician
My Mandala Astrological Tarot interpretations are NOW AVAILABLE at tarot.com
Mandala Tarot Reading @ tarot.com
ATMann Book Cover Designs
I have designed many book covers (in addition to most of my own books) for sympathetic authors and publishers. "Chakras, Rays and Radionics" and "Ray Paths and Chakra Gateways" were both designed for my friend David Tansley, the premier radionic practitioner and theorist of our era. The covers reflect graphic healing concepts because radionics is healing with patterns.
email A T Mann for graphic design commissions
ATMann Logo Designs
I have designed many logos for companies created by individuals or organizations who also have a spiritual agenda and want their corporate image to reflect both business and spirit. These logos contain or are based on archetypal symbols and geometries and therefore evoke powerful identification. Genese manufactures a vitamin/mineral formulation for osteoporosis and is primarily for women, therefore its symbol is a double lotus. Galaxen magazine used the Milky Way Galaxy. Wellspring Vitamins combined the double helix of the dna molecule within the caduceus, showing the organic quality of the minerals. Elmebech alternative accountants in Copenhagen shows the elm tree of its location street and the ideas of solidity and firm roots and also the Egyptian hieroglyph for "flow." The Art of the Possible logo utilizes an infinity symbol in its design. ScanLase dental lasers utilize an ancient Vedic sun symbol.
email me or call 518-822-0882 for graphic design commission consultations
Sacred
Design:
The Essential Astrological Component
By A. T. Mann
A lecture presented at the "Making Sacred Places" Conference 1997
University of Cincinnati School of Architecture, Hebrew Union College and Old Saint George
In an unexpected way my interest in astrology reactivated my earlier quest to understand architecture and the mysteries of number, proportion and form, and provided the underlying mystical tradition for which I had searched in vain since childhood. My astrological practice demonstrated beyond doubt that the three dimensions of traditional architecture (height, length and breadth) were often subsumed with the fourth and most powerful dimension, time. Indeed, sacred architecture is an integration of space and time, earth and heaven, and at its most profound accesses the timeless. And yet time was not discussed in my education.
The unique and mystical mathematical proportions of the human lifetime and psyche synchronise with planetary rhythms and geometry, as Plato, Pythagoras and the Hermeticists insisted. Geometry and number are the primary source of magical thought, linking humanity to cosmos. Magic circles, mandalas, meditation diagrams, healing spaces, as well as sacred megaliths and stone circles, all have architectural origins and foundations but sacred causes. Some Indian and Buddhist yantras (meditation diagrams) are literally temple complexes or cosmoses as seen from above.
The architecture I consider sacred is that which has a common root in the life of the soul and spiritual vision, rather than that which contains religious forms. Symbolism and meaning in architecture are more important than aesthetics.
To read the text of this lecture, complete with illustrations, click here:
Designing Desires Workshop
A group workshop at Doors of Perception 3, Amsterdam, November 1995
By A T Mann (Group Leader)
The Netherlands Design Institute, Domus Academy of Milan, the Royal College of Art, London and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology co-sonsored the "Doors of Perception 3 Conference" in Amsterdam in November 1995. The workshops and conference explored ways in which information technology and design can contribute to sustainability, specifically the mental and material changes that must be made in order to achieve a sustainable future. The purpose of the workshops was to create various info-eco scenarios that could be used by design schools and designers in the future. I was invited to run one of the twelve Professional Design Workshops.
I called the workshop "Designing Desires: Fluid Functionality and Less as More." The brief was: "We blame consumerism for its wastefulness, but what can we learn from the numerous and subtle ways in which it stimulates our desires? What new ideals can inform the way we cultivate desire with our product design and guide us to a more sustainable future? How can we do more than just marvel at the psychological power of status symbols, fashion and fetishism to generate demand?"
See ATMann's description of the workshop
The Astrological Memory Theater
(Excerpt from "Sacred Architecture," Vega/Sterling, 2002)
Robert Fludd's Theater of the World
The Art of Memory was considered by the Greeks as an essential part of education. Their goddess Mnemosyne (Memory) was the mother of the Muses, a position that reflected the importance of an accurate and efficient memory in those times. Until the invention of printing in the 14 Century, the primary way one could gain access to information was by word of mouth. There were few manuscripts to record information and very few individuals could read them. Once one having heard a play, or story, or the recounting of a battle, the only way to store it was in the memory. This required a memory art, which the Greeks based on techniques of creating a series of 'places' and 'images' in the mind.
Astrology is the foundation of the "round art" of memory as architecture is of the "square art". My work integrates these memory arts into dynamic processes we may integrate into our lives.
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