Mosaics

Sometimes you just wonder.........why you really have an interest in something. I started to play a little with mosaics. My first project I featured was on a previous post, my candlier.
I had a great time cutting and gluing all of those pretty little pieces of glass to those wooden balls.

You wonder.......when I was a little girl, this mosaic was on the front of a building on Main St. The building was one of my Great Grand-Father's businesses. As a little girl, I was amazed with the colors in the 'picture'. I had no clue what was a mosaic. The closest thing to that sort of art was the stained glass windows on the church. Still, it held my interest......
Don't let the picture fool you, the mosaic is actually about 15+ feet tall and wider than that. The original building was demolished, but they salvaged the mosaic and re-established it in the front entrance of the new building. It depicts our way of life on the bayou....fishing, raising cane, the oil-field, industries on land, in the marsh and offshore. It's sort of sentimental with this big ole oil spill in our 'back yard'. Down on the bayou, it's our way of life........and we want to keep it that way. Our way of life depends on fishing and oil...........we need both.