What Goes Around, Comes Around
November 30, 2009 
Mosaics are one of our oldest and most permanent art forms. The walls and floors of ancient ruins still live on through their bits of colored glass and stone. The walls of Venice’s Basilica of St. Mark sparkle and mesmerize as the flicker of candles reflect in the thousands of gold tiles on its walls. Its floor undulates but the patterning of her stone mosaics forgive the turbulence and roll with its unevenness.
However, what is most fascinating to me about mosaics is their modernity! For instance, if you look at a digital photograph of something really closely, you’ll see the image dissolve into pixels. Those pixels look very much like the thousands of tiles that go into making a mosaic image.
Perhaps we have reinvented the wheel and have come full circle!
Note: Be sure to click on the image to see it enlarged. The workmanship in this piece is amazing!
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