White Sun II: Mandala Cover Painting

The cover of White Sun II was painted by Nepalese painter Ganesh Lama. Artists who train to paint traditional mandalas paint only mandalas their whole lives, it’s a very specialized field of work, and a mandala can take anywhere from a few months to a year to complete, depending on the intricacy of the elements and potency of the design. White Sun’s singer, Gurujas, worked with Ganesh Lama and translator Raju Ghising for weeks to create the design, meeting first in Nepal and then exchanging emails and drawings until they came up with a precise pictorial mirror of the White Sun sound. It took a total of 8 months to complete, and some of the finer details were created using a single hair of a paintbrush.