Blackout
2016
20 x 20 inches
Smalto on framed wedi panel

This was one of the final mosaics I made as a student at the Scuola Mosaicisti del Friuli in Italy. My concept was a city map, with the streets full of action, but everything so dark that it hardly registers. I also wanted to play with dimension, and made the “buildings” several levels high, as a nod to the skyscrapers of NYC, for which I was very homesick at that point in my schooling. The buildings are true black, but for the “streets” I used a mix of several different blacks cut into slivers to give extra value to those spaces.