As I told you in my blog already in October I started a community mosaic project with my neighbors. Since November every Wednesday evening and Thursday morning a couple of people are getting together to make the dragon for the dragon’s garden as our compound is called. Wishing you my dear readers a peaceful holiday season, yours sincerely Gertrud 木乐
This air vent structure is standing around in a beautiful spot under big plantain trees in our compound in Beijing. When I saw it I thought it would give a good object to decorate with mosaic. The management of the compound agreed and I set of to start to draw it, take measurements etc. My newly found old friend Sanny Wroblewski (whom I met already 5 years ago when we were posted in Turkey) joined me with her graphic design skills to turn the ugly cement blog into a dragon. The compound is named – Julong Hua Yuan – which means all dragons garden. One day we set off to get dragon- inspired. That was fun. Now the work begins: finding tiles and cement, fibre netting and transparent adhesive, getting the tools and the production process ready. The idea is to involve the community of the compound. The tricky point is: its all in Chinese. Today with the help of my housekeeper Xu I talked to a tile selling company. It works like this: I …
You remember my blog about the Lizard mosaic I made with my friends? On March 26 we (Mabes the mason and I) installed it in an orphanage in Ceilandia, one of the Satellite cities of Brasilia. It was lots of dust and debris as half the wall came off when Mabes took off the tiles! But in the end all happy and colorful!
