1″ x 2″, glass and found objects
Today I installed a mosaic at a senior housing site in Brighton. The installation was inspired by a huge colorful sculpture of a flower that Lilli Ann Rosenberg had made with residents of the building 40 years ago. Lilli Ann’s mosaics were also in Newton Centre, and I walked by them, explored them and thought about them every day as a kid. Later, on my first trip to Philadelphia, I was amazed by Isaiah Zagar’s huge, colorful, playful mosaics. I love Laurel True’s work too. As I learn more about “real” mosaic and the rules of andamento I don’t quite know how to place the mosaics that are so free-form and broken-looking within the bounds of the art world’s constraints, but they still make me smile the most. This pendant, like the artists I like the most, breaks all the rules.
