Gangtok, Sikkim
Acrylic · Mineral pigment
The mandala taught me that a circle is a promise of return. I remove the deities and keep the architecture: the rings, the gates, the careful centre. What remains is a map for attention. I hope someone looks at one of these for a long time and feels their breathing slow down.
Tenzin Dolma studied thangka painting at a monastery school in Sikkim for six years. Her current practice borrows the geometry of the mandala — its grids, its concentric order — and releases it into contemporary colour. She paints on stretched cotton and still primes each canvas in the traditional way.
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Tenzin Dolma
100 × 100 × 3 cm (39.4 × 39.4 × 1.2 in)
Tenzin Dolma
40 × 40 × 3 cm (15.7 × 15.7 × 1.2 in)
Tenzin Dolma
180 × 180 × 3 cm (70.9 × 70.9 × 1.2 in)
Tenzin Dolma
60 × 60 cm (23.6 × 23.6 in)
Tenzin Dolma
40 × 40 cm (15.7 × 15.7 in)
Tenzin Dolma
30 × 30 cm (11.8 × 11.8 in)
Tenzin Dolma
50 × 50 cm (19.7 × 19.7 in)
Tenzin Dolma
70 × 70 × 3 cm (27.6 × 27.6 × 1.2 in)
Tenzin Dolma
50 × 50 cm (19.7 × 19.7 in)
Tenzin Dolma
35 × 35 cm (13.8 × 13.8 in)
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