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Mosaics around me

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Beautiful mosaic murals have crossed my way in the past months. On my recent trip to New York I went on a quest to find the newest editions of mosaic murals. Friends told me “under central station” and “you go down down down and then you see the mosaics”. So I went to central station and we first asked some friendly man in yellow vests where to find the mosaics and they took great interest but couldn’t really point in any direction … Then we went down, down, down and ended on a very narrow and old platform with no mosaics. Almost giving up, when we tried to find the way back out of this dark labyrinth full of people and hot air, we saw some stairs leading into a white clean brand new hall and I was sure we could find the mosaics here. So we followed signs to LIRR station and found them: .                                       …

German Organization for Mosaic Art (DOMO)

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The German Organization for Mosaic Art and the Aldersbach Art Association organized a mosaic exhibition with international participation in the grounds of the Aldersbach monastery. my 3 bird mosaics were neighbors with works by Giovanni Alvich, in the chapel of the cloister. I was at the opening on May 20, 2023 and met some of the artists there. At the general meeting held on the same day, I was elected to the DOMO board. Since then, I have learned a lot about mosaic art in Germany and Europe and can contribute my international experience at the board meetings. https://www.domo-ev.de/  

Trauer nach dem Erdbeben in der Türkei und Syrien

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I am mourning with the people in Turkey and in Syria about the loss of lives and livelihoods in the region of the earthquake. In 2015 I spent a whole month in the city of Gaziantep learning and working together with Nusret Özdemir, a mosaic master and former security guard of the archeological museum Zeugma where the most beautiful mosaics were discovered in the last century. In his workshop we made the figures of the Ayvalik Mosaic – a project I did in 2015-16 to recreate a whole mosaic floor in ancient technique. During that month I was living in a flat share in Gaziantep with Ayse Ebru Corbaci who is the lead conservationist of the Gaziantep district. I have heard that both are well and their houses are still standing. I haven’t heard about the Zeugma Mosaic Museum in Gaziantep and also the situation at the archeological site. We will get to know about the conditions of these truly magnificent cultural heritage places – first is the care for the people that are insured …