Chikako

Chikako's mandalas are made of countless dots, placed one at a time. From a distance they read as a single pattern; up close, the dots overlap and give off light. I began from the idea that the site's job was to carry that light onto the screen without losing it.

The first words you see are Chikako's own. When an artist's words are strong enough, I believe the maker's job is to give them a place where nothing gets in their way, so I paid the most attention to type size, space and the timing with which words appear.

The ground is dark, arranged so that only the works give off light. There are no rounded corners, shadows or gradients, and no bold headings. Motion is limited to gestures close to how a mandala forms: coming into focus, spreading from a single point, opening like a flower.

A mandala reveals more the closer you come. Choose a work from the horizontal gallery and it opens large, and you can move to the next with a swipe. Each of the 63 works also has a page of its own.

Since launch in July 2026, I have kept refining the site as we talk. The thirty-four mandala oracle cards with a card of the day, the Metamorphosis chapter of films made from the originals, and the Topics news were all added after launch. The site states clearly that every original is drawn by hand and that only the films are made together with AI.