If you ended up on my site from reading about Chris Harvey’s Mandala of Perfect Happiness sculpture on BoingBoing, welcome! Here’s a little more info about Chris, his sculpture and me.

Update

Chris tells me that he’s started a tumblelog for the Mandala and that someday soon there will soon be video of the sculpture, including a timelapse of its disassembly. I assume that will be posted to the tumblelog, so add it to your feedreader. Great pics of the sculpture on there right now.

About the sculpture

The Mandala of Perfect Happiness is made of hundreds of cheap plastic objects that Chris has collected for many years, supplemented by a shopping trip to 99 cent stores when he received a small grant to install the sculpture at the President?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s Gallery at the The Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy, NY. Apart from poles through the center of the spires, it is held together only by gravity — no glue or fasteners were used. Click on the photo below to see all my pics of the sculpture.

About Chris Harvey

Chris Harvey is a multi-media artist based in Troy, NY, a hotbed for the visual arts, especially VJ-ing. Currently Chris is part of the creative team developing Molecularium, a magical, musical adventure into the world of atoms and molecules that brings together art and science in a playful, engaging format, that will be released in IMAX and planetarium hemispherical projection theaters this year. Chris can be reached at chris at nanotoon dot com.

About me

I (Dan Winckler) am primarily a visualist (or VJ) and performing artist. I perform live visuals for music, dance and theater shows and have worked with Benton-C Bainbridge, [Koosil-ja](http://dancekk.com, Grisha Coleman, and Lance Blisters, among others. I teach visual performance and media manipulation to New York City public high school students in VJ-U, run a small webcasting company, and do interaction design and programming for interactive multimedia advertising. I’m also one of the volunteer organizers of Share NYC a free, open community for multimedia artists that hosts open audio-visual jams every Sunday. You can see some of my work on the /visuals/ page as well as on the Internet Archive. I also do virtual cinematography for This Spartan Life, a talk show set in Halo 3 on Xbox Live. I also blog for Create Digital Motion about VJ stuff. Also, I can’t stop saying “also”.