For my Mandala project I chose to focus on the element fire. When I was brainstorming my first idea of fire led me to stars, the universes biggest fires. I placed the stars in the golden ratio pattern getting larger as the circle goes out. I thought it would be interesting if I made the stars have more shape to them, since if you look at blown up images of our Sun, you can see gases that make a beautiful texture on the Suns surface. The squiggly stars with the combination of different shades of red and orange in a “spotlight” type pattern aka a simple version of the Dynamic Symmetry grid that really brought the idea of fire to life.