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A great neihbor!

  The dragon sculpture for the Dragons Garden/ Julong Garden is ready!   I would like to take this sentence as the motto for this project: ‘ a bit complicated but it worked” . I am very happy we managed to finish this community mosaic project within the Julong Garden Neighborhood despite a very complicated structure, within the complicated situation of the COVID 19 outbreak and in a rather challenging setting of cultural differences(eg not everyone spoke the same language) of the participants.     We started in Oktober 2019 (click on the underlined link to open up the previous blog on the dragon) with the design which I then presented to the compound management. After getting their green light we set off to produce the larger parts of the mosaic in November in the mosaic moments studio in Julong Garden.     During the holiday period in December and January the dragon slept. Then came the COVID 19 outbreak in China and we were bound to our houses. The work on the dragon gave …

Julong Garden Community comes together again

After being indoors for 2 months in self quarantine since the beginning of February the neighbors of Julong Hua Yuan in Beijing Dongcheng district are coming together again to work on the dragon mosaic for their Dragon Garden – that’s what Julong Hua Yuan means. Working outside near the air vent structure that should hold the mosaic proofed to be very successful in terms of visualization of the project. It also sparked the interest of passing people.  

The Dragon taking shape…..

As I told you in my blog already in October I started a community mosaic project with my neighbors. Since November every Wednesday evening and Thursday morning a couple of people are getting together to make the dragon for the dragon’s garden as our compound is called. Wishing you my dear readers a peaceful holiday season, yours sincerely Gertrud 木乐