The first in my Music To My Eyes series, Etude looks quite elegant on this blue wall above a velvet blue sofa, don’t you think? It’s quite fun to put my mosaics in rooms and see how they work. The size of the panels is a little off as they look a little bigger than they actually are. With the artroooms app, it is difficult to size and align multiple images. Although the app does ask for dimensions, it seems inconsistent in how it uses them when placing the art on a wall. These panels are 12” | 30cm wide, but on the wall they look more like maybe 14”?
Etude (2007) 24" x 40" | 97cm x 102cm (each panel 24" x 12" | 97 cm x 61 cm).Mosaic gold in blue, green, and turquoise, smalti, glass beads, faceted garnet. In a private collection.
This mosaic gave me my first experience working with colored gold. I did not realize that there would be light to dark shades in a single kilo when I bought it in Venice. When I started playing around with it, I wanted to use the gradation for effect. However, sorting a kilo of gold and separating into light, light-medium, medium, dark medium, and dark is not easy. Being metallic, it is so light-sensitive and just looking at it at a different angle affects its appearance.
Etude, side perspective
Etude, bead detail