Mandala for the Future
A Participatory Performance by Amanda Hansavathy and Cassidy Conway ColeWhat does a future ceremony look like, one rooted in care and creation rather than loss?
With Mandala for the Future, we invited our community to build a living mandala together, offering seeds, soil, and intention to the earth as artists, humans, and stewards. This was a ritual of regeneration, a way to explore our deep, inner connection to nature. When we focus on connection, boundaries dissolve. It becomes we. And we need each other to survive.
Thank you to SustainLabRCA and everyone who co-created this collective ritual with us. Let’s keep imagining, planting, and committing to building different futures.
Inspired by the cyclical form of mandalas, Mandala for the Future invites a ritual of regeneration. The ceremony begins with grounding offerings such as soil, seeds, water, and found objects from the earth, transforming creation into a shared act of care. Our ancestral repetitive patterns are de-centered, with irregular shapes and sizes into the spiral. We grow intentionally imperfect, because progress isn’t perfect, and embracing the messiness is how we move forward.
In the end, all materials are redistributed or returned to the earth, completing the cycle.