North Texas Sunrise DAY 12

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DAY 12
Our opening act: a magic stand alone ladder

Today we will start to put in the hop clover

View from the stationary camera recording the process in time-lapse


We are very focused in our work today.

Even the plastic backing can be beautiful!

The pieces are like a negative of stain glass when held to the light.

A hop clover with attitude.

Looking fabulous!

End of day 12

North Texas Sunrise DAY 11

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DAY 11
Our scissorlift has arrived!
Ferruccio peeling the panels to go up

Mike and Emily rising to the height of the Bluebonnets.
The top edge is measured and cut on-site to fit .  These are the cutoffs.

We made it to the TOP!
There are so many ways to play with scale and this mosaic.  It really is the perfect wall.
Lunch break in Moss Lee Love Garden just off the check-in desks at Dallas Love Field.

Detail of Back in the Moment by Sherry Owens

The bronze sculpture mades great shadows. 

Detail of Back in the Moment by Sherry Owens

Lunch in a bronze forest.

Team work! Kate and I setting the scaffolding after lunch.

The Indian Blanket from yesterday peeled, cleaned and glowing.

Mike directing the light and the next pieces.

Ferruccio ready.

Mike pounding the one piece and putting in the next piece.

Emily fitting the pieces together around the giant dandelion.


Getting ready for tomorrow... the stars mark where we need to build up the tile to meet the 3D piece, ie backbuttering.

Closing the crates after a good days work.

So excited to have made it to the top today!

North Texas Sunrise DAY 10

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DAY 10
We start the day cleaning what we did the day before.  

3D Indian Blanket waiting for installation

And it's in!

Evidence of grouting! We are testing colors... stay tuned!

The underside of a Daisy

Progress!

Wow, those flowers are taller then Emily!

Mike! Don't eat that sponge! It's for grouting!


The sky is beginning to fill in.  We are now more then halfway installed.

North Texas Sunrise DAY 8

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DAY 8

We LOVE our LOVE audience!
And be sure to check out Mosaika's blog as well! 
http://mosaikadixiedallasloveairport.blogspot.com/


3D pieces for the day
Mike vogueing as we keep going up.
Ferrucio passes up a piece
Echinacea detail
Bluebonnet and Mexican Hat leaves
My favorite hand-made tiles, created by Kate and I in the studio.
more hand-made tiles
Morning Glory
Daisy
More hand-made tiles, including a bee.  Different creatures are placed throughout the mosaic.
Primrose
Wine cups



Watch out Mike! It's the ghost of Moss Love, a pilot from Dallas killed in 1913 for which the airport is named.
Ferrucio cleaning/climbing flowers at the end of the day.
The flowers are starting to really rise about the crowd.

North Texas Sunrise DAY 7, a day of LOVE

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DAY 7
Our plan for the day, all laid out

These are the hardest pieces since they are mostly made of 3D pieces. It really is a giant puzzle.


Buckets of thin set mortar, one for you one for me.

Lots of backbuttering for these 3D pieces.  


Mike and Emily fitting them together, perfectly.

Mike admirers the bluebonnets blooming.  

End of day 7!

Lot of LOVE here, Happy Valentine's from Strokers!

North Texas Sunrise DAY 1-3

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We are at it again, up to our elbows in our newest mosaic installation with the team from Mosaika of Montreal at Dallas Love Field Airport.  So excited to see the giant blank wall and start to fill it with Texas-sized wildflowers and a grand Texas sky.  The mosaic will cover a floating wall just before security in the main lobby of the airport.  The piece spans 64 feet and rises 18 feet and is made of hand-glazed and hand-formed ceramic tiles.  The hand-formed pieces were created in my studio and include frogs, lizards and various textures.  There are also three dimensional low relief mosaic inserts that create   a gentle undulation on the wall adding to the trippy, disorienting perspective of the giant flowers.

We'll be posting updates every few days here and be sure to check out Mosaika's blog as well.  I am thrilled to be working with everyone on our team, especially Kay and Drema from City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs, Hensel Phelps Construction, Kavplan, the team from Love Field Modernization Program and of course Mosaika Art and Design. 

DAY 1
a fresh wall, prepped and ready

our audience

the treasure map

Drema and Kay, our amazing advocates from the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs

First piece going in

backbuttering the 3D elements and hand-made tiles

the first 3D low relief mosaic insert

Kate as Vana, end of Day 1

Lucky us, every Thursday the artists, designers, architects, contractors and Southwest gang have the last meeting of the day at Strokers.  

Kate wants a ride.

Can't imagine an installation without these two, Emily and Mike are the best.
 DAY 2

What a good looking team!

End of Day 2
 DAY 3
the first cleaned section

a 3D insert 

Some adoring fans and a great shot of the 3D undulations

End of Day 3