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more confidently i simply didn t have the time for this to ing and fro ing so i m particularly happy with the fact that i managed to get something on the wall didn t use one of the chilean artists to do the sketching for me and that my design echoes me and my own sentiments it s definitely my style day 2 i had come at least with an idea in mind win i then went back and forth about this daytura again i put my head up long enough to see what others had done so far and spotted a gnome it was at this point that i decided to completely eliminate my struggle with this daytura and go with my own design as so many other artists had already done i realised that other artists were considering magic quite heavily in the theme of magic garden too the whole concept of realism freaked me out as i don t do realism it isn t my thing i have no interest in it though can still appreciate it it was also apparent that all the other work was very colourful showy and attention grabbing as soon as i freed myself from using another person s drawing everything fell into place and i also made the decision that i would create a piece that was still calming and more subdued in contrast to what everyone else was doing i sketched the outline up on my section and started cutting and laying tile phew i felt like i was getting somewhere i also had a better look at the tile that was available to us there was a shipping container full of ceramic tile across the road in a carpark this is where we would have to go to get our tile and where we all packed our things at the end of the day team chile did bring our buckets to us of a morning and of an afternoon packed away anything we weren t using but ultimately we were responsible for getting anything we needed and putting it all back at the end of the day at first glance there appeared to be a lot of different colours thinking about it now we actually were quite limited in our palette all the colours were well represented but i don t know that there was a large variety of each hue we also ran out of certain tiles fairly quickly and these were not replaced so the challenge was getting what you needed ahead of time it resulted in some resource guarding issues i went back and forth on colour choices and for the most part was lucky enough to be able to find what i wanted needed i did have to go scavenging in the last few days for a particular green and managed to find just enough tile was an assortment of 6 8mm ceramic varying from mid to high fire tile i seemed to use a lot of the hire fire tile which is where my starretts came in very handy i actually dislike using low fire tile i must say and don t stock it in my studio for many reasons some of the tile i would never think of using if i ever saw it in a tile shop it was a real eye opener as that same tile ended up looking great within the mosaics i ll certainly be selecting tiles with a different approach i think i beleive it was day 2 that the mayor put on a luncheon for all the artists at a nearby park we were given a lovely chilean dish called pastel de choclo some good chilean wine i m a fan of the red and fruit to finish it all off day 3 4 i was still setting tile but it didn t look like i was getting anywhere i did start to feel a little concerned that i wouldn t finish in time there was no consistent information coming through about whether it was expected that we complete our mosaic some said we didn t have to do the background others said we did what we knew for certain was that team chile would be grouting i had set myself a few goals in doing this mosaic one was that i wasn t going to use the local artists to draw for me the other was that i really wanted to complete the mosaic background and all so i had to keep my design along the kiss principle i was still in two minds about grouting i never call a mosaic complete until after it is grouted so i was struggling with the idea that we were not going to be able to grout our own mosaic and i really wanted to see my finished work grouted as the grout can make it look so different that said the upside was that we were not going to have to grout our own mosaic in the words of the effervescent susan crocenzi it s hard being me it was finally on the fourth day that i also gave up on wishing arguing with myself that i had not brought over particular materials i don t think i have ever not used mirror in one of my murals it s just a given for me i would have loved to have used mirror especially coloured mirror in my mosaic i did almost go buy some plain mirror and then decided no i was being silly and really didn t have the time nor the tools things would be ok my neighbour wendy phillips and kim porelli gifted me with some small glass gems that i did end up using and am very grateful for day 5 i started setting tile on the big mushroom cup i spent all day and got about a third of it done as much as i wanted to keep things simple i didn t want it to be totally boring either so i decided to go for a really flowy mushroom i m really glad i did day 6 being a saturday was only an optional half day work day susan and i did a bit of sightseeing before heading down for some further work it was a lovely day as there were only a few of us on site and therefore less chaotic i managed to get more than i expected done on the mushroom cup we were then invited to a play that evening as one of the scheduled events i decided to pass exhaustion had started to set in a week of working in the sun and mid 30 degree heat had started to wear thin and i needed to be alone day 7 day of partying at isidora s it was her birthday throughout the week and she invited us all over to her place for festivities and swimming i swam and slept by the pool most of the day week 2 was an even busier week and we knew it would be there were events lined up for every night with artist s presentations and dare i say it some that went way too long please people keep to time and relevance when giving a presentation going over time and under relevance meant that presentations were pushed out to another night which was then declared that they would occur the following night so i left as it turned out people changed their minds again the presentations went ahead and i missed seeing laurel true s presentation i was so bummed and yes i did get over it but i would have much preferred her presentation over some of the ones i did stay for the mayor also put on a cocktail night for us in the same park as the luncheon we had that included traditional chilean cuisine as a tapas style finger food wine and dance on the thursday evening everyone was working towards the official opening on the friday 7pm by wednesday i felt certain that most of us wouldn t finish and team chile would have to step in after we had left i was wrong a number of artists worked until the absolute last minute but friday was my favourite day everyone came together to pitch in and help it was evident throughout the 12 days that some artists took a dislike to each other not surprising where big egos are involved friday saw everyone pitching in and assisting everyone i had already grouted my piece as i came in on thursday absolutely determined to finish setting tile it meant that i didn t speak to anyone all day literally head down bum up as we say here so friday i was a lot more relaxed and pottered around pitching in where people needed me i helped wendy and kim next door to me assisted with susan s background cut and filed some leaves and set tile for sherri warner hunter set tile for laurel true and even got to poke in some glass rods into stephanie chatelet s mosaic during all this time team chile had completely covered the front of the building they really are a well oiled machine i havn t seen a bunch of people work so well together always laughing and having a good time and they work fast well by day 12 we did it it was a whirlwind of an experience but we did it there were many hiccups in the running of the event from either the management of or artists having personal belongings stolen but it will be all the better for the next intervention rumoured to be happening in germany the only thing i didn t understand was the blessing of the mosaic given by a priest at the opening i am always when in rome when i travel but that was kinda weird i saw the priest come up to the podium all dolled up with his bible so excused myself to drink in the finished artwork what i later found out from one of the argentinian artists was that while the priest was blessing the artwork on the town hall he also blessed the people who showed up to the event including us artists he then went on to damn those who had not come to the opening to hell dang even my local chilean friend thought that was odd as chile is these days relatively diverse in its religious views and not usually so evangelistic so now that i m back home i ponder my time there and ask what i got out of it would i do it again i can t actually begin to say what i got out of it i feel like i grew as an artist maybe i ll feel that impact more as i begin work again because i learned so much from watching such a diverse group of artists work i m pretty sure in fact i know that i will approach my future projects differently i learned a new way of seeing a mosaic and setting tile that i will start to use more in my practice i learned a new method of double direct mosaics i learned a whole heap more about myself how shut down i am in certain social situations let s be honest big crowds freak me out i m definitely a one on one kinda gal and have always known this but that is also the left overs of surviving an abusive relationship still working on it after all these years that i don t need to procrastinate as much as i do in order to output decent work that i allowed myself to get easily caught up in life and forgot to make mosaics more of a priority that self doubt is normal with most if not all artists that i m not in any rush to make another mosaic direct in situ even though i never thought i d miss sitting on a bucket in the heat and sun nipping hard tile haha would i do it all over again hell yes i would let s hope isidora continues to find funding for mosaicing public buildings lol i can t ever see the same thing happening in australia as much as i d love to be part of organising one what i did realise with the limited travel i did in chile is that the people there have an appreciation for the arts that is very different than the appreciation here art appreciation here is sterile if it s not in a gallery or the public art is not funded by the government or some exclusive high end organisation and made of brass or some such it s not art everywhere i went in chile there were murals mosaics you name it it was everywhere people liked it expected it accepted it and fostered street artists in particular with all kinds of festivals when a new mural goes up that artist rarely sought permission if ever street artists there are well known and appreciated their work is not painted over without permission how awesome is that we have some awesome street artists here in canberra and the popular views of their work is not the same this is something i d like to see changed as the benefits of having art in our streets seemed to me to be bigger and better than not having it maybe the biggest revolution we can stage as artists is to head out to our local places and colour them in i ve been wanting to do this for a long time and have always thought what s the point it ll only get buffed tomorrow but maybe that is the point maybe the point is to colour in our world only for it to be taken away for people to realise that they are in fact missing that magical something like what happened in turkey i really think that the magnanimity of this project is yet to be realised i ve posted pictures of the entire project on my facebook page in an album called chile intervention 2014 it will save me a lot of time not having to upload them here which means more time getting back to actually creating mosaics i still have to finish my mural that has been a wip for far too long not much more to do so i m getting offline and creating next in line after that is a mosaic dedicated to my dad which has a deadline my dad s birthday so time to get busy here is the day by day of my mosaic from the project as well as the final image larger my family of magic mushrooms kim grant 2014 my family of magic mushrooms kim grant 2014 detail with tile from carrie reichardt detail with a tile from carrie reichardt signature and tile from carrie the gun had to go which i was ok with given they were allowing me to leave the rest xx share email a link to a friend opens in new window email tweet like loading 7 comments filed under animals architectural installations art birds building chile community projects design concepts events flowers inspiration meeeting of the minds mosaic murals nature ornamental public art round the world south america subway town hall travel urban tagged as chile puente alto december 22 2013 11 16 am 2013 wrap up 2013 done it s been a busy one a sad one but at the same time a freeing fruitful and happy one both in body of work and emotional path walking perhaps bittersweet is an appropriate description for those of you who follow me on wastebook you ll know that i led another community mosaic project at chapman primary it involved creating three mosaic panels with themes that were chosen by the school community history sustainability and school values i was also given drawings and sketches that the kids themselves drew to include in the designs what resulted were three amazing mosaics that all 400 odd students and staff at the school participated in not kidding preschoolers made their own tiles that were fired in the school s kilns and embedded in concrete at the edge of a garden bed that looks out onto the three mosaics sustainability history chapman now school values it was a really great project one that i am super proud of and again i worked with some wonderful people i had three artists come visit throughout the year carol shelkin susan crocenzi and marian shapiro all offering something completely different and quite distinct to their own styles all the classes sold out so it was a testament to good ol canberra thank you though i should mention that many students did come from interstate some as far as western australia goes to show that mosaic art is indeed a growing and burgeoning medium here in australia so great to be a part of that movement carol shelkin s class susan crocenzi s class marian shapiro s class i mentioned this year was a sad one it was fraught with health problems with my dad and sadly he passed away in september there is nothing quite like the grief of losing a loved one he was very present in my life stepping in to look after my children when necessary and generally helping me out so he played a large role in all our 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