There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. — Anaïs Nin
Coded Message: Illuminated has been selected to show in the 2015 exhibition “Mosaics of the World” during RavennaMosaico, the biennial International Festival of Contemporary Mosaic in Italy. Additionally, Coded Message: Illuminated has been selected to show in “Mosaic Arts International 2016”, the annual exhibition of the Society of American Mosaic Artists.
Coded Message: Illuminated
glass, ceramic, gold, smalti, turquoise, chrysocolla, dichroic glass, hand-made ceramic inclusions, rock crystal, seashell, pearls, amazonite, abalone, pebbles, Paua shell, magnesite, malachite, aqua aura crystals, azurite, applied without visible adhesive on a hand-formed substrate
22.5″h x 31″w, 2015