Are We Gonna Be Okay
2022
10 x 10 inches
Smalti, ecosmalti, vitreous, painted thinset on wood panel

I love playing with complimentary colors (particularly, I’m finding, blue and orange) and seeing how quickly/smoothly I can blend from one to the other. It’s very meditative to make. I hand-cut every tessera with my hammer and then placed each one specifically to create a vertical blend while avoiding a horizontal blend. I wanted the lines of tesserae to be clear.

The mosaic was inspired by a picture of sound-engineering software that my brother sent me. The concept was to take something very rigid and digital, and make it organic and physical.