You’ll have seen this before I expect in my not very good photos last month. But this is showing the whole of one piece, then close ups of parts of it.
It would be nice to have a poem on ceramic. and mosaic around it. I am thinking of some Blake mosaics that Southbank Mosaics have done in Centaur Street, Lambeth. I’ll see if i can get pix of those too.
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Look at that, shards of pottery, glass, buttons, chips of lapis lazuli, semi-precious stones… wonderfully textured and full of interest.
Thanks Jan. I don’t think any lapis crept in! Nothing of value at all, apart from the smalti which is quite expensive. Glad you like it. 🙂
I love the mixture of textures you have in your mosaic. Where do all the bits come from?
Are the Blake mosaics now permanently installed in the street?
Thanks Sophie.
Yes the Blake mosaics are in Centaur Street brightening it up. The yellow boxes you can see are sound installations so you can press a button and listen to relevant bits of Blake’s poetry. He lived in a house nearby on Hercules Road.
I collect my stuff from all over the place. The shiny flowers are from a broken necklace I found in the street. Quite a bit of the pottery is from the Thames foreshore as is the oyster shell, the seaglass and the flint. I bought some smalti, used chips of bus stop glass, buttons that again I picked up from the street, the large bit of tile on the right, which was my starting point, was part of a bucket of stuff someone brought in that they dug out of their garden. It’s nearly all rubbish really!
Presumably you have to collect lots of bits before you can become truly inspired? It works though.
PS Biological washing liquid was quite effective 😀
Unfortunately, I am a natural hoarder, and since starting mosaics people give me their broken china.
Good to hear about the biological washing liquid. Apparently most kitchen cleaners contain ammonia, so the offending tom cat thinks another cat has sprayed over his ‘territory’ and the spraying increases.
Hi Isobel. Now these are lovely, I do envy your talent with these mosaics.
Thanks Val. Still out of focus though. Damn. I’ll try again soon.
Thank you, Isobel. Just flying by on my way out. Will return for a better look. I love what I have seen so far
Hey, nice mosaic! And I remember those Blake mosaics!
I thought you might!