Mosaic Moments

Its done!

The first piece of the mosaic is ready to be mounted.

The rental contract of the studio is signed.

The boxes with all the mosaic stuff are packed again to be moved from our house to their hopefully permanent home for the next 3 years.

I would love to present you with all parts mounted together on photoshop, but my photoshop skills are non existent ;( So your imagination has to do this 🙂

This is the last post for this year. I wish you all a peaceful rest. I am looking forward to write to you again from the new studio.

 

This week I managed to have two days of very concentrated work on the background. I discovered that if I set my phone to “do not disturb mode”  helps not to jump at every incoming sound of messages from the outside world.

And I managed to do  a lot:

I decided to employ our gardener to help cutting tesserae one day a week. I observed that he is a gentle and careful worker and might be able to pay the necessary attention to detail. My observation is right, he learns fast. With his help at least the stone breaking and shaping into pyramids is going ahead well.

There is still little progress in laying the tesserae onto the design which is my work and I can not concentrate well! There are too many things at the house that disturb my concentration.

The renting of the studio is going ahead. I went again to look at the available studios next to Cida Carvalho. There are 5 rooms available. All with large windows and equipped with lights, plugs and a small bathroom with toilet and shower. So best conditions for a mosaic studio and working with stone and mortar for which I need a small wet space to establish my  sintering system in order not to clog the drain.

I also learn that there is a ceramic studio on the same floor. A nice prospect for my works decorating ceramic frames and  bottoms of vessels with mosaic\ .

It is not so easy to rent something here in Brasilia when you are a foreigner with no regular income. My husband has to rent the studio for me and a colleague of Martin  is willing to be our guarantor which is a requirement for a rental.

When we go to the realtors office to hand in our documents we walk past these interesting mosaics by Martha Poppe, a plastic artist from Rio. Isn’t that a good sign?