A young Syrian woman enters the Guinness Book.. the largest mandala in the world
The young Syrian artist, Lama Zakaria, achieved a record and entered the Guinness Book of Records after her success in drawing the largest painting of mandala circles in a very distinctive way.
The artist indicated that she planned her distinguished artistic work for about two years, and her painting took about 5 months of work, actually, at a rate of 6 hours of daily work.
The young artist was able to draw 4,096 mandala circles of various diameters, colors and various decorations, the largest of which is two meters in diameter and the smallest with a diameter of 2 cm, on 8 MDF boards to assemble them together with an area of approximately 25 square meters, according to the official Syrian news agency “SANA.”
Lama worked on the completion of her masterpiece in her small studio in the Syrian town of Deir Atiyah, and for this work she used acrylic colors to draw single, non-repetitive and different circles from each other.
The artist indicated that she was able to overcome the difficulties to achieve this achievement through two years of training and gaining experience, and she benefited from the Internet, which was her main reference to develop herself in this type of art.
"The night that I achieved the record was very extraordinary," she said.
Not all of my family and I slept, and perhaps the entire city... Words betrayed me when my achievement made the headlines saying (Syria achieves the Guinness World Records title), this is undoubtedly one of the happiest moments of my life.”
She said in a press interview on the subject: “The mandala chose me, not I.
It all started while I was drawing some graffiti on the edge of a textbook, then I came across a similar drawing on the Internet, and I searched more to discover that it is an art in itself, and from here was the beginning.”
Lama is currently studying architecture at Al-Baath University in Homs, Syria, and is trying to achieve a new record in 2023, which she will announce soon.
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