Last glance into my studio in Brasilia . I am leaving with a laughing and crying eye for Beijing/China this month together with my family. Crying because I had the most wonderful 3 years in this room, made an immense advancement in technique and conceptual development of mosaic projects and gained a lot of experience in teaching the craft. And most importantly I made a lot of good friends. I can not thank my neighbor Cida Carvalho enough for all her support and my students who became true friends.
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Laughing because Gabriela Urquiola (standing)- a Bolivian architect bought the studio and is keeping roman mosaic and classes alive. I am sooo happy about this incredible coincidence that Gabriela came to Brasilia after living and working as a mosaicist in Rome for 11 years.
And I am determined to build up a new mosaic moments studio in Beijing where we, as an expat family, are posted from Mid March 2019.
There I will meet with Sani, I am friends with since my first mosaic days in Ankara Turkey and Edilene who was one of my first students at mosaic moments in Brasilia.
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Sani has already put me in contact with a group of expat mosaic makers in Beijing and secured a stock of mosaic material from a leaving mosaic artist. I feel this craft has real connecting power. It is amazing!