“Baby C”
2020
10 x 10 inches
Hand-cut smalto, stone on wood panel

This mosaic was made for my cousins' nursery, the first baby of this generation to be born on my husband’s side! The theme for the nursery is moon & stars; for the moon I decided to use natural stone because of its sparkle and the history it has…you can feel the life of stone when you see it and touch it, and that was something I wanted the baby to have in his room right from the beginning. The background is beautiful blue South American smalto, and I created a simple diagonal gradient to add some depth to the mosaic.
My greatest praise for this piece was from my husband, who, when he saw it, said, “I could definitely see a cow jumping over that moon.”