Shepard Fairey "Chaos Mandala" Print

Shepard Fairey (Obey Giant)
Chaos Mandala, 2025
Screen print on thick cream Speckletone paper
18 x 24 in
Edition of 550

Hand Signed & Numbered by the artist. Accompanied by Digital Certificate of Authenticity provided by Verisart.

FROM SHEPARD FAIREY
This Chaos Mandala print merges two seemingly contrasting concepts and aesthetics…chaos and harmony. I have always been fascinated by the cyclical chaos of posters and graffiti accumulating on the streets and then being ripped at by humans and the elements. There is beauty in the layering and in accepting that there are too many variables of push and pull for any of us to control them all. For me, the philosophy to embrace is “enjoy the ride and savor the ephemeral”. In my backgrounds I’m often trying to replicate in my studio the charm of the layering and chaos one finds on the streets but using my own patterns and collage. Mandalas on the other hand are symbols of harmony, wholeness, and the universe in its ideal form. Chaos and harmony might seem hard to reconcile, but Buddhist monks poetically address the paradox of striving for harmony but accepting impermanence and destruction with their rituals of creating and destroying elaborate sand mandalas. This Chaos Mandala print is a blend of all of these ideas.
– Shepard