mosaics.....the big picture




Thanks to Martin, Jason, Mike and Karen for feedback and requests for other than detail shots of our recent collaboration. I'm not real pleased with the photos, but it will be next weekend before I can get outside and use natural light, and I am too lazy these days to pull out the seamless paper and blue ligthts and light meter and the hubris to pretend I know how to take pictures.

The rock came from the Greenbriar River in West Virginia and has occupied a changing place of honor in the back yard for probably fifteen years. The top part broke off while in transit from one place of honor to another. The starting concept for the piece was to open up a slit that would look into two convex surfaces facing each other, which would be lined with mirror mosaic. A fractured infinity chamber. I had thought to bind the stones back together, but Louise insisted they had to be hinged. Back to Stone and Steel. It produced a sort of Gothic Dutch door. The spiral incised on the front of the lower "door" rock was the path the dust took when I hammerdrilled one of the holes for attaching the rods.



I got one of the concave surfaces ground, but my diamond blade was almost worn out, and the sun was nearly set as I wacked out the shards from rough cutting the second bowl. I had planned to resume the next chance I got but Louise came to the rescue again and insisted that the faceted bowel was a perfect mosaic texture. Right on Lulu.



A little mirror, a few beads, glue, grout and the chance to look for infinite spaces receeding into the heart of the stone.

Louise wrote a nice reflection on this piece, but I cant get it from Microsoft into Kodak without retyping, so I will post it at sykesgallery.com when I pull it together to do a mosaic blog . Hope all are well...BSB