Mathru School for the Differently-Abled
Wednesday 1/22/14
The last two days have been some of my busiest, teaching both days, and putting in ten-hour marathon working sessions on my new mosaic. It's coming together. The design features four child silhouettes reaching up to a sky full of stars. At first I had the children standing amid a garden of flowers, but when I finished the bases for them and put them on the board, the kids didn't want to stay on the ground. So now they're levitating -- flying -- and actually reaching the stars. The silhouettes are to be mosaiced in mirrors; the flowers are all cream tile with glass glob centers surrounded by light green tile leaves and green glass globs; the stars are lighter glass globs and mirror rounds, and the background will be cobalt blue.
It's really a nice piece.
I have another 20 to 30 hours of work on it before it's ready to grout. I'll get it done by Monday or Tuesday and grout it next Wednesday or Thursday.
I am glad Linda is bringing her camera. I'd like to have photos of the mosaics I've made here, and the murals of all the pieces the students have made.
Speaking of photos, I guess we'll have to rely on Linda to take pictures of my new wardrobe, too, because no one here has given me any of the photos taken so far of me in my sari or other new outfits.
My students from the School for the Blind came over here today, and finished their projects that they started weeks ago. I wish I'd had more time with them. Their mosaics are excellent first projects and I would have liked to see them improve with their next efforts.. But at least they finished the first ones, and we'll get them grouted later this week. They'll go into a mural along with the other mosaics.
We'll be making four wall murals of four 12x12 mosaics each, and one coffee table top of six 10x10 mosaics on paver tiles. Divya and I took measurements yesterday and have the plywood on order to arrive here Monday. We also have more than a dozen mirrors to make ready to hang.
While I was cleaning up after class today, Divya brought in a group of visitors who are school supporters. One of them works at a therapy center for disabled children in north Bangalore, and asked if I'd be willing to work with children at her facility. I could actually understand her, too (I found out later she spent thirty years in the US before moving back to India), and it was such a joy to chat with someone and understand every word. We exchanged business cards, and I told her I'd love to work at her facility. I don't have time before I leave, but we talked as though it is a given that I'll be back next year.
It's not an unrealistic given, either. Andy and I made a point of making connections in Singapore, and I will do so in Sri Lanka and Manila, too.
Wednesday 1/22/14
The last two days have been some of my busiest, teaching both days, and putting in ten-hour marathon working sessions on my new mosaic. It's coming together. The design features four child silhouettes reaching up to a sky full of stars. At first I had the children standing amid a garden of flowers, but when I finished the bases for them and put them on the board, the kids didn't want to stay on the ground. So now they're levitating -- flying -- and actually reaching the stars. The silhouettes are to be mosaiced in mirrors; the flowers are all cream tile with glass glob centers surrounded by light green tile leaves and green glass globs; the stars are lighter glass globs and mirror rounds, and the background will be cobalt blue.
It's really a nice piece.
I have another 20 to 30 hours of work on it before it's ready to grout. I'll get it done by Monday or Tuesday and grout it next Wednesday or Thursday.
I am glad Linda is bringing her camera. I'd like to have photos of the mosaics I've made here, and the murals of all the pieces the students have made.
Speaking of photos, I guess we'll have to rely on Linda to take pictures of my new wardrobe, too, because no one here has given me any of the photos taken so far of me in my sari or other new outfits.
My students from the School for the Blind came over here today, and finished their projects that they started weeks ago. I wish I'd had more time with them. Their mosaics are excellent first projects and I would have liked to see them improve with their next efforts.. But at least they finished the first ones, and we'll get them grouted later this week. They'll go into a mural along with the other mosaics.
We'll be making four wall murals of four 12x12 mosaics each, and one coffee table top of six 10x10 mosaics on paver tiles. Divya and I took measurements yesterday and have the plywood on order to arrive here Monday. We also have more than a dozen mirrors to make ready to hang.
While I was cleaning up after class today, Divya brought in a group of visitors who are school supporters. One of them works at a therapy center for disabled children in north Bangalore, and asked if I'd be willing to work with children at her facility. I could actually understand her, too (I found out later she spent thirty years in the US before moving back to India), and it was such a joy to chat with someone and understand every word. We exchanged business cards, and I told her I'd love to work at her facility. I don't have time before I leave, but we talked as though it is a given that I'll be back next year.
It's not an unrealistic given, either. Andy and I made a point of making connections in Singapore, and I will do so in Sri Lanka and Manila, too.
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