Muffin Bernstein

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Tomato Mandala

2011

Muffin turned to 17th century Tibet to find, through mandalas, profound religious and spiritual meaning. This is a singular and beautiful choice, especially if it originates from contemporary metropolitan, deeply provincial or tornado-ridden America. In particular, the Katrina hurricane, that devastated Muffin Bernstein’s New Orleans in 2005, where she did all she could to help, and decided from that moment on to make nature the sole subject of her art. Cruel nature, which destroys without mercy, yet also nature which palpitates and comforts, vibrates beauty and radiates serenity. The artist’s biography – amongst other things, she suffered an apartment fire that destroyed all her artworks and belongings – helps us to understand the seriousness and coherence of her artistic motivation: this is not transient, as it is for so many others, but strong, especially in moral terms, on the human level. Flowers, plants, green is always the predominant color in the mandalas printed on canvas, Bernstein feels she is part of a whole: of the environment, made up of vegetable, animal and mineral kingdoms, as of the human community, to which she belongs as a participant. In a world of unbridled individualism, it is nice to find an artist concertedly seeking harmony in her creations and for her artistic talent to involve a civic and social undertaking. -Michela Turra 2017

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Photograph on metal framed in Peweter floater frame

8" x 8"
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Image Description: Tomato Mandala / Main Image

Artist + Muffin Bernstein

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Muffin Bernstein is an award-winning Louisiana artist utilizing our ecosystem as her palette. She has been creating photographic nature collages, utilizing sacred geometry, for over 20 years. Within her photographic medallions, she conveys the transformative and healing power of nature, which Muffin has experienced firsthand throughout her own journey of self-healing, as well as themes of rebirth and reawakening.

In her Pollination works, Muffin photographs living butterflies. These geometric mandalas, which are all about breathing for healing, can transport viewers into another dimension within themselves. Collectors of these medallions are encouraged to meditate with them as a means of reaching the 4th dimension.

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Location All / Greater New Orleans / Greater Baton Rouge / North Louisiana / Mississippi Gulf Coast