I'm Michael Rocharde, and I make Critters Mandalas. 

The whole thing began with the deeply suspicious decision to turn the structure into a playground. I start with mandalas — orderly little circles of sacred geometry, all neat and balanced and pretending to have their lives together — and then I invite chaos in through the side door. Not mild chaos. Full goblin chaos. The kind that arrives with glitter on its boots, strange little creatures in its pockets, and no intention whatsoever of behaving.

After cataract surgery, I found myself at a strange crossroads: I could either sit still and recover like a sensible person, or I could learn how to make elaborate digital mandalas on my iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil and accidentally build a whole universe.

Naturally, I chose the second option, because if life hands you a weird new perspective, you may as well use it to create decorative creatures with opinions. I use Amaziograph to build the structure, then Pigment to breathe color into the thing until it starts looking less like a design and more like a magical incident.

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