Constance Braasch, music teacher and art teacher, who truly impacted my life. In fact two artists, the other was Lucille Castle Innes. My mom was busy rearing 5 kids, and it was just after WWII. These women gave me a view for the future.
This card was painted by Constance Braasch circa 1950-1960
AI – scary reduction of detailed and tedious hand work to 5 seconds on canva
I dont know about you but it takes hours and hours to do needlework, quilting, stained glass, mosaic and while this generated in five seconds by AI is nice, it is still NOT the object, but in about two years, 3D printing will be so common that you will be able to reproduce what would ordinarily take months, in a few hours, or minutes.
There you have it — needlepoint patterns for the stations of the cross (in this case Station II) right next to two patterns with crescent moons, lights, stars for Ramadan, on my pinterest. Inspiration for art is a global, transendental experience, no surprise there.
New mosaic pot – “ice tea”, the only pot i have named, and this is because of the square glass cubes which my daughter found in a thrift store and sent home with me (LOL). They were just over a square inch in two dimensions, and in the third dimension, probably just under an inch. They turned out to be reasonably difficult to grout around.
As usual, all tesserae are from the scrap bin, or thrift store or building value store for reuse of left over building parts. It weighs a hefty 30 lbs… LOL.
