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1″x1.5″, found objects

Some of my long to-do list goes quickly, but most of it is plodding.  I try to fill out a form, but the mouse stops working. I call IT but they don’t pick up, we play phone tag for a while and then I get the mouse working again, but then I still have to fill out the form.  I had an afternoon of those sorts of plodding tiny steps forward, with very little progress, but I suppose I learned and named some new barriers, which I can try to jump over tomorrow.  The design of this pendant reminds me of the steps of a very large pyramid.  If you keep climbing, one step at a time, you’ll eventually get to the top.

1”x1”, glass, ceramic and antique wallpaper

A few weeks ago, a friend stopped by with a whole truckload of antique mosaic tiles and told me their story. He’d rescued them from a warehouse that his family’s business is about to sell.  They’re from Italy, and must have come from a project 50 or 60 years ago. Near them in the warehouse are marble statues of saints that no one can quite explain.  A whole box of the tiles are curved corner tiles.  Turned upside-down they look like little books.  This pendant combines the tiles that arrived dusty and worn from the warehouse with pieces of wallpaper that was buried two layers below the surface in our house when we bought it to make a tiny book of stories. The stories aren’t easy to read, but they make me curious.