Bradford Fuller

About the Artist

Digital Mantras is a series of mandala-based works that combine advanced digital imaging with traditional photographic subjects—birds, landscapes, and flowers. Drawing from my immediate surroundings, I use symmetry, texture, light, and repetition to build intricate visual structures that extend historical forms into a contemporary, digital context.

Computers have transformed the way we create, enabling new modes of expression and the construction of abstract and virtual worlds. These works are printed as transparent images and backlit with LEDs, replicating the luminosity of natural light and echoing the visual language of stained glass. Gothic Episcopal churches in Boston, with their bold color fields and dark leading, were my earliest encounters with visual art. That influence carried into my early paintings and continues to inform my work today. My training as a painter shapes how I approach image-making—allowing intuitive decisions, free association, and a tactile sensitivity even within a digital process.

Mandalas have long functioned as “magic circles,” appearing across cultures and eras—from Tibetan sand mandalas and Southwestern sand paintings to ancient, medieval, and Renaissance alchemical diagrams. Working within this lineage in the 21st century, I aim to engage iconic tradition while offering a new visual language—one shaped by technology, light, and the perceptual possibilities of the digital age.