{"id":2170,"date":"2020-03-15T12:13:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T04:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gertrudmuller.com\/?p=2170"},"modified":"2023-09-24T13:39:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T11:39:30","slug":"1-year-in-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/en\/1-year-in-beijing\/","title":{"rendered":"1 Year in Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Today I am one year in Beijing. Look how my studio has developed!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I have found an apartment with a studio space on the 5th floor (no lift &#8211; keeps me fit)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\r\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/7C6D1FC7-5163-4DD8-BBFE-824EDCD53770_1_105_c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"312\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/7C6D1FC7-5163-4DD8-BBFE-824EDCD53770_1_105_c.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/7C6D1FC7-5163-4DD8-BBFE-824EDCD53770_1_105_c-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/7C6D1FC7-5163-4DD8-BBFE-824EDCD53770_1_105_c-420x560.jpeg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 312px) 100vw, 312px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/54C88A89-055C-430D-8A43-7A8BFF39DDE7_1_105_c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/54C88A89-055C-430D-8A43-7A8BFF39DDE7_1_105_c.jpeg 886w, https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/54C88A89-055C-430D-8A43-7A8BFF39DDE7_1_105_c-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/54C88A89-055C-430D-8A43-7A8BFF39DDE7_1_105_c-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/54C88A89-055C-430D-8A43-7A8BFF39DDE7_1_105_c-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/54C88A89-055C-430D-8A43-7A8BFF39DDE7_1_105_c-120x120.jpeg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Education at 3 conferences : the yearly conference of SAMA &#8211; Society of American Mosaic artists in Nashville &#8211; where my community project in Brasilia was exhibited<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2283\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/23F61A57-CE6F-4461-A52B-2E497057FB32_1_105_c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"483\" height=\"644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/23F61A57-CE6F-4461-A52B-2E497057FB32_1_105_c.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/23F61A57-CE6F-4461-A52B-2E497057FB32_1_105_c-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/23F61A57-CE6F-4461-A52B-2E497057FB32_1_105_c-420x560.jpeg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 483px) 100vw, 483px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Annual conference of BAMM (British Association of Mosaic Masters &amp;DOMO (Deutsche Organisation f\u00fcr Mosaic, where I attended a workshop with Thomas Denker a German mosaic artist who created a computer program to make sophisticated pixel mosaics.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1975\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/9D42D6ED-9765-472D-83B9-7541577B9D1E-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/9D42D6ED-9765-472D-83B9-7541577B9D1E-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/9D42D6ED-9765-472D-83B9-7541577B9D1E-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/9D42D6ED-9765-472D-83B9-7541577B9D1E-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/9D42D6ED-9765-472D-83B9-7541577B9D1E-420x560.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/9D42D6ED-9765-472D-83B9-7541577B9D1E.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I reconnected with my friend Sani Wroblewski who supported me in my first attempts to make mosaic in Ankara. Together we created the community mosaic &#8220;Dragon&#8221; for the Dragons Garden where mosaic moments studio has its home in Beijing.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" class=\"wp-image-2304\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/F5A55818-CD61-413C-83F0-42F4B4DFB567-819x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/F5A55818-CD61-413C-83F0-42F4B4DFB567-819x1024.jpeg 819w, https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/F5A55818-CD61-413C-83F0-42F4B4DFB567-240x300.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/F5A55818-CD61-413C-83F0-42F4B4DFB567-768x960.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/F5A55818-CD61-413C-83F0-42F4B4DFB567.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Discovering public mosaic projects in New York, Washington DC, Detroit, Istanbul and Hongkong. See also my blogs in April, October 2019 and January 2020.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\r\n<ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\">\r\n<li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\">\r\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" class=\"wp-image-2101\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_6324-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2101\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/gertrudmuller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_6324-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/gertrudmuller.com\/mosaic-tour-in-hongkong\/img_6324\/\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_6324-scaled-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_6324-scaled-1-225x300.jpg 225w, 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data-link=\"https:\/\/gertrudmuller.com\/08919a48-4724-4e39-b736-184e594bfcec\/\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/08919A48-4724-4E39-B736-184E594BFCEC-e1576466014695.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/08919A48-4724-4E39-B736-184E594BFCEC-e1576466014695-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/08919A48-4724-4E39-B736-184E594BFCEC-e1576466014695-420x560.jpeg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/>\r\n<figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Istanbul Palace Mosaic Museum<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\">\r\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"wp-image-1715\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_4163-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1715\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/gertrudmuller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_4163.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/gertrudmuller.com\/usa-mosaic-trip-part-two-washington-dc\/img_4163\/\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_4163-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_4163-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_4163-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_4163-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_4163.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\r\n<figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Washington DC Church Art<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\">\r\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1537\" class=\"wp-image-1678\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/897B57D0-063A-44AE-A87F-9F6FCE54A557.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1678\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/gertrudmuller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/897B57D0-063A-44AE-A87F-9F6FCE54A557.jpeg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/gertrudmuller.com\/897b57d0-063a-44ae-a87f-9f6fce54a557\/\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/897B57D0-063A-44AE-A87F-9F6FCE54A557.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/897B57D0-063A-44AE-A87F-9F6FCE54A557-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/897B57D0-063A-44AE-A87F-9F6FCE54A557-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/897B57D0-063A-44AE-A87F-9F6FCE54A557-1024x769.jpeg 1024w, 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https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_0322-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_0322-420x560.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_0322.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\r\n<figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Detroit Street Art<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Testing new materials on new backgrounds &#8211; a lot of glass mosaic stones found its way to my studio here in Beijing &#8211; an inheritant of another mosaic artist who transited through Beijing and left some mosaic enthusiasts and a lot of material behind that I can now benefit from. Sorting the many colors and shapes took these diligent helpers several days.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" class=\"wp-image-2456\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/6FCE380C-09E6-4888-A522-8D724036073C-e1608092140902.jpeg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/6FCE380C-09E6-4888-A522-8D724036073C-e1608092140902.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/6FCE380C-09E6-4888-A522-8D724036073C-e1608092140902-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/mosaic2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/6FCE380C-09E6-4888-A522-8D724036073C-e1608092140902-420x560.jpeg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I am planning to start mosaic classes as soon as the Beijing administration will open schools and allows the Beijingers to gather physically again.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I am one year in Beijing. Look how my studio has developed! I have found an apartment with a studio space on the 5th floor (no lift &#8211; keeps me fit) &nbsp; Education at 3 conferences : the yearly conference of SAMA &#8211; Society of American Mosaic artists in Nashville &#8211; where my community project in Brasilia was exhibited Annual conference of BAMM (British Association of Mosaic Masters &amp;DOMO (Deutsche Organisation f\u00fcr Mosaic, where I attended a workshop with Thomas Denker a German mosaic artist who created a computer program to make sophisticated pixel mosaics. I reconnected with my friend Sani Wroblewski who supported me in my first attempts to make mosaic in Ankara. Together we created the community mosaic &#8220;Dragon&#8221; for the Dragons Garden where mosaic moments studio has its home in Beijing. Discovering public mosaic projects in New York, Washington DC, Detroit, Istanbul and Hongkong. See also my blogs in April, October 2019 and January 2020. &nbsp; Testing new materials on new backgrounds &#8211; a lot of glass mosaic stones found its &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,74,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-posts-en","category-mosaic-workshops-en","category-own-mosaic-works-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2170"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4101,"href":"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions\/4101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}