Mosaics are quite incredible. Not only do they present contemporary representations of culture that teach us about the past, but also show just how much passion there is for expression. Using sediment to create a totality, quite astonishing.
If anything, these remind me of the mandala approach to unconscious expressionism, not so much in the artistic design, but the time is taken and the knowledge that such things, by nature, are impermanent. This is an expression of the duality of mankind, a brief fire in the dark.
Regardless of the aesthetic appeal, we have to remember that art, from a Jungian perspective, is what unites us and forms the sublimation of our shared fears, loves, and phantasy. With mosaics, we listen to Yeats when he says 'tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
There is something quite beautiful in this, that our sum hopes can be represented symbolically and physically beneath the very ground we walk on, passing over them every day, reminding us that our simplicity is in gravity and our shared dreams.
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