sand painting
Navajo ritual art
Sand painting is the art of creating images by pouring colored sands or similar granular materials onto a surface.
The technique is practiced by Navajo and other Indigenous peoples of the American Southwest as part of healing ceremonies, where the paintings are traditionally destroyed after use.
Tibetan Buddhist monks create similar works called mandalas.
The term also applies to permanent decorative art made by fixing sand to a surface with adhesive.
- NavajoSouthwestern indigenous people
- mandalaCircular spiritual diagram
- TibetanOf a Himalayan region
- grainsSmall hard seeds
- impermanenceQuality of not lasting
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