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History of Corrugated Mosaic Art

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:02:44 -0800

I was recently interviewed by Matthew Decker of the Alexandria Team on ETSY. Here is the link to the entire interview on his blog: http://alexandriateam.blog.com/member-spotlight/

I have related bits and pieces of my story over the years; but I've never actually written out the entire story of Corrugated Mosaic Arts, as it evolved over the years.
It's not like I had a "Plan" at the beginning; I just needed a new career and I've been making it up as I go along.

1994 – I left a 15 year career in mechanical engineering feeling totally burned out from the impossible deadlines and months of 80 hour work weeks. After returning from a family wedding in Belgium, I wanted a shadowbox frame to display several mementos from our trip. As my father was no longer available to make one for me, I went shopping. The shadowboxes I found were expensive and not well made; so I decided to make my own.

I had already used corrugated cardboard and velcro to add some shelves to a cupboard in our motorhome. The idea of using corrugated came to me while shopping at Costco: all over the store were big boxes and pallet sized sheets of corrugated. Costco collects these to be recycled into new boxes but I saw them in terms of raw material: sturdy, easy to cut to size, light weight, abundantly available and free.

Corrugated Mosaic wall clocks at Silver Circle Gallery

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:00:51 -0800

These are the Corrugated Mosaic wall clocks I have at Silver Circle Gallery:

Eleventh Hour

Red Square

Music Pinwheel

Trashformation: from Trash to Treasure

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 06:31:25 -0800

www.SilverCircleGallery.com

Thru December 31st, 2101 at the Silver Circle Gallery, Putnam, Ct USA

This holiday exhibition will feature artwork in a wide variety of mediums with a high level of craftsmanship and sophistication despite their humble origins. Included in the show are mosaics, textiles, sculpture, furniture, fashion accessories, collage, assemblage, functional home accessories, and purely conceptual artistic statements that were chosen for dramatic effect (such as a twenty foot paper mache dragon to be hung from the ceiling). Most pieces, however, are suitable in scale and price for one-of-a-kind “green” holiday gift-giving purposes.