Downtime Elegant Mandalas

A mandala usually promises order and delivers monotony after page ten; this one keeps the order and drops the monotony. Fifty circles here borrow their raw material from telescopes, cathedral windows, sheet music, travel posters, and a dozen other unrelated worlds, each theme dissolved into radial symmetry until it barely resembles its source until you look closely. The detail sits at a comfortable middle distance, intricate enough to reward a slow hand, open enough not to demand one. What changes page to page isn't the structure but the subject hiding inside it, so the familiar satisfaction of coloring something round never turns into the familiar boredom of coloring the same thing twice. It suits anyone who likes patterns but gets restless with pure geometry, and who wouldn't mind finding out what a library or a solar system looks like once it's been folded into a wheel. A color test page and single-sided printing take care of the practical end, leaving fifty separate reasons to sit down and color one more circle.