After being indoors for 2 months in self quarantine since the beginning of February the neighbors of Julong Hua Yuan in Beijing Dongcheng district are coming together again to work on the dragon mosaic for their Dragon Garden – that’s what Julong Hua Yuan means. Working outside near the air vent structure that should hold the mosaic proofed to be very successful in terms of visualization of the project. It also sparked the interest of passing people.
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 …
