Since I had two weeks to wait for my return flight to Asheville, I decided to get busy with an arts project.
In 2013 Sheila and I travelled to Italy and were wowed by the mosaics, both ancient and modern, in Ravenna. Back in Toronto we found a mosaic studio coincidentally a five minute walk from home, and learned the craft. Sheila made a square mosaic of a wolf that sits beside our cooktop, and one of a heron in our backyard. I got ambitious anf prepped three boards, and then made two mosaics of forest scenes. The goal was always a tryptic but I lost interest before I made the third, and for the last 13 years our dining room has had two mosaics and an empty spot for a third. Finally, I thought, I can fill in that blank spot.
I chose as the source image a photo I took of the lower falls in Dupont state forest in NC, which we visited with friends in 2023. Here’s the mosaic after gluing to the backing, but unfortunately the glue (thinset mortar actually) doesn’t seem to have taken, so the mosaic will be sitting on my workbench until I get back and can reglue amd grout it…
