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
At the end of November I was in Chongqing for the annual meeting and exhibition of the View Stone Association of China. A view stone or appreciation stone is a stone in which one sees an image or design. At the annual meeting a couple of hundred people from all over China got together to appreciate their stones. I was absolutely fascinated by the different images that people see in these stones. Landscapes … Animals… Numbers and letters .. Food …. People …. The rule is to just find these stones – no alterations by human hand except cleaning. During the conference I was invited to talk about natural stone mosaics. Paloma Sanchez – Gemologist and jewellery designer in Beijing, who invited me to this conference and exhibition spoke about using natural stone in modern jewellery design. We both enjoyed the trip very much. It brought us in contact with deep China. For me it was fascination with the contemplative art of appreciation of nature and an inspiration to pick up stones now and then …
“Super Code Grain“ Mosaic Teaching and Formal Language Research Exhibition – Beijing On 8 November I was invited to the opening of “Super Code Grain” an amazing mosaic exhibition of the mural painting department of the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing. Prof Li Chen, her assistant Shi Jiutian and her colleagues and students created this show in a large centrally located exhibition hall of the building that also houses the Daimler offices in Beijings district of Wanjing. Many of the mosaic associations I know would dream to have their works exhibited in such a professional exhibition space. On November 22 I took some friends to the exhibition. Everybody was in awe about this very interesting display of mosaic history, mosaic works and related pixel images. We were shown around by Prof Li’s assistant Shi Jiutian, who’s main project organizing this exhibition was in the last year. Guangming Daily reporter Rongchi about the exhibition: Mosaic is a material with unique beauty. Its luster, color and texture together form the formal language of the mosaic …
