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Grandma's Nice Mosaic Flower Pot Busted to...

...Smithereens

In Islamic mosaic art, the Divine is thought to manifest itself in the precise geometric arrangement of tiles. For this work, I created a set of geometric rules and applied them, purposefully exploiting their ambiguities and irregularities, to see what sort of Divine, if any, would manifest itself.

Hand cut glazed ceramic tile, glass, mortar, and acrylic on hand formed cement panel.

39 inches h x 25 inches w x 4 inches d

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