This mosaic just might be my favorite of all the ones I’ve made. And I’m not sure why.
As you may know, I’ve been exploring a looser, more relaxed execution technique the last few weeks. And, as you may also know, I’ve been flirting with trying to do this since about 2012. This work is one in which I was trying to do that. I can see some hints of a looser technique, but unless you are very familiar with my work as a whole, it probably is not obvious.
No Such Thing As Time (2012) 8" x 22" | 20cm x 56cm. Marble, porcelain, mosaic gold, broken china, sodalite, turquoise, malachite, onyx. A 'four seasons-inspired' group. Each panel 4" x 4" | 10cm x 10cm.
So why is this my favorite? For one thing, it started with just the right-most piece. I was not thinking of doing a four seasons-inspired group when I started. I love neutrals and that explains the palette. I was happy with that first one, and somehow it became the group that it is now. It was spontaneous. I also did not have in mind to have them flow into each other, but that came along spontaneously as well.
I think I like this so much because of its spontaneity, and because, even though they are not compulsively precise, I could be happy with them. Perfectionism is a component of my compulsion for precision, so it was a big deal for me to be able to both accept less precision and like the outcome.
No Such Thing As Time, textural view