sandpainting

A sandpainting is a design made on the ground or floor with dry sands of different colours -- black, white, gray, yellow, red, etc. It looks like a rug or a blanket on the ground, and is made up of many curious marks which stand for some man, place, thing, or idea.

Woodland Tales Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

The influence of Pablo Picasso, Thomas Hart Benton and the Mexican Muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros is still apparent, but giving way to Native American sandpainting and "all over" painting techniques that would eventually lead Pollock to abandon traditional notions of perspective and geometric shape for fractal-like patterns.

A Pollock Saved From the Flood 2008

Ultimately the difference between a Buddhist sandpainting and a mess is …. .patience and appropriately applied skill.

Don't Allow Invertebrate Dems In Congress to Insult You. They CAN Stop the War 2007

Because of certain of my school studies, I know more about sandpainting than any of my colleagues.

Cyber Way Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990

I think the skyhole in your sandpainting is meant to be taken literally, not as a metaphor.

Cyber Way Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990

"Let me guess: you want to work with the sandpainting."

Cyber Way Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990

I don't carry much in the way of sandpainting anymore.

Cyber Way Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990

As you can see, it is very complex even for a sandpainting.

Cyber Way Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990

As the last phrase faded away and the sergeant lowered his trembling hand, the impossible vista which had occupied CYBER WRY the zenat vanished, leaving in its wake the image of a flat, familiar sandpainting devoid of any depth.

Cyber Way Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990

A hatathli always chants when destroying a sandpainting.

Cyber Way Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990