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Artist’s Statement
Walking down a street in New York City’s SoHo district in the autumn of 2002, I noticed a classical mosaic in a store window. At that moment all my artistic interests, from photography to ceramics, merged into a desire for the tactile.
Having just returned from making photographs in Provence, I was thinking about the ways images are captured and interpreted. Looking at the mosaic, I realized that this medium is a way to give multiple lives to my images. Having composed an image through a camera lens, I could not only make prints, but also transform it into something different, a stained glass mosaic.
Since discovering mosaic, I have worked in what is now the last studio in NYC. In March my workspace closed in response to the Corona Virus shutdown. I was lost. Where could I work? I needed to find a space where I could break glass and wouldn’t have to worry about injuring others. Outdoors might work but it was still cold. So I waited and planned. I picked up my camera and started exploring LIC for “mosaic ready “images.
Finally in early May the weather broke. I decided to try the roof garden in my building. It has become my studio. I’m able to work every morning. My new mosaics are part of my “Pandemic Series”
Contact: roherglassmosaics@pobox.com
Walking down a street in New York City’s SoHo district in the autumn of 2002, I noticed a classical mosaic in a store window. At that moment all my artistic interests, from photography to ceramics, merged into a desire for the tactile.
Having just returned from making photographs in Provence, I was thinking about the ways images are captured and interpreted. Looking at the mosaic, I realized that this medium is a way to give multiple lives to my images. Having composed an image through a camera lens, I could not only make prints, but also transform it into something different, a stained glass mosaic.
Since discovering mosaic, I have worked in what is now the last studio in NYC. In March my workspace closed in response to the Corona Virus shutdown. I was lost. Where could I work? I needed to find a space where I could break glass and wouldn’t have to worry about injuring others. Outdoors might work but it was still cold. So I waited and planned. I picked up my camera and started exploring LIC for “mosaic ready “images.
Finally in early May the weather broke. I decided to try the roof garden in my building. It has become my studio. I’m able to work every morning. My new mosaics are part of my “Pandemic Series”
Contact: roherglassmosaics@pobox.com
