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Step Away From the Phone! - The Luxury of Disconnection
I feel like this is an interesting NYtimes article that is relevant to our discussion on technology today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/22/fashion/step-away-from-the-phone.html?pagewanted=all
Cracks
"The interstices or gaps between the
tesserae speak their own language in mosaics."
-Terry Tempest Williams, "Finding Beauty in a Broken World"
Doors
sorry about the image quality, I've been having a hard time loading my pictures. I'll bring it to class but until then, a description will have to do. As we were walking through the city, I became really enamoured of all of the different doors, so I ended up splicing them together into one big mosaic. I particularly enjoyed the doors that seemed out of place (ie the ones that were in the middle of mosaics), and the disguised doors hidden my their surroundings.
(PS sorry this is so late, the website crashed,, and I didn't get the chance to upload before class this morning)
Mosaic of a Garden
Here is my mosaic; please let me know if it is not visible. Serendipity has been giving me lip when I try to upload photos.
People are part of mosaic
(Last night when I tried to upload the webpage was unavailable.)
People are a part of mosaic.
The background is seeing the magic garden through the gaps in the mosaic wall in front of my eye.
In the center is my reflection in the pieces of mirror on the mosaic wall.
Other three are pictures of people making mosaic more interesting and dynamic.
I am the mosaics
My time in the Magic Gardens seemed like a blur, a mesh of everything mixed together. I didn't remember many specific things, just a mass of beauty. So I put all these pictures together, upside down, sideways, every way possible, which was as close as I could get to a visual representation of my thoughts while there. I felt like I was part of the art of the Gardens while I was in them, so it seemed fitting to place a picture of myself reflected back in some of the mirrors front and center.