2015 and 2016

2015 and 2016
Here and Now

"K i s m e t"..
(for more on Kismet please go here)

photo of glass and ceramic mosaic on wood with photos very colorful yellow, cobolt blue, kelly green, black red with photos of Picinisco and my window and pineapples and artichokes and a dice and the fibonacci sequence with

"Kismet" 23"x11"x3" glass and ceramic mosaic on wood with photos, text, blocks and #2 pencil ©Diana Maria Rossi 2016

"Kismet" was many, many months in the making. I will write about it more, perhaps later. For now, I will let the images speak for themselves except I need to thank the people who supplied some of the crucial materials, as this was a piece that took its direction from the materials and from the idea that we really don't control the important bits of life. We make do with what is cast our way.

Thanks to Matt O'Callaghan for his broken car window glass. That is what got this mosaic rolling! Thank you to Jen Levinson for her beautiful, broken ceramic bowl that was given to her by her Mom. Thank you to Donato Rossi, my Grandfather for his yellow schnapps glass and for his words of wisdom --- "oi, oi oi" and of course the real test --- his making sense of losing his son . And thank you to my cousin Drew Kordas for packing Poppa's schnapps glasses so badly that a couple broke. Thank you to Claudia Marlowe and Bill Grubaugh for the lovely oriental vase that did not last intact with me for more than 4 months. Thank you to Babci, for her broken dipping bowl from her elaborate set of china. (And thanks to Cousin Kathryn for saving Babci's china and to Matt for driving it to me.) Thank you to my daughter, Rosa, for her lucky no. 2 pencil and thank you to my son, Arturo, for posing for those photos, the re-enactment of feet coming through windows!

And lastly, but never leastly, thank you to my Dad, Arturo Lorenzo Rufino Giuseppe Rossi. Did I get it right? Or is it Arturo Laredo Rufino Giuseppe Rossi?

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"Kismet" (detail) ©Diana Maria Rossi 2016

photo of detail of Kismet which is a glass and ceramic mosaic on wood with photos, text, wooden blocks and pencil. This detail features the #2 pencil which has been mosaiced with thin strands of purple, blue and green glass. Atop the pencil is a mosaic die (dice) and you can see the blocks in chevron formation with parts of the Fibonacci sequence behind glass. You can see the top of the mosaic and some of the yellow, green, and white plus cobalt blue ceramic.

"Kismet" (detail) ©Diana Maria Rossi 2016

"doors opening windows slamming shut a sometimes yes a sometimes not"

"Kismet" (detail) ©Diana Maria Rossi 2016

"I am playing the numbers and casting my lot with the mystery"

detail photo of middle of piece with three photos (Picinisco flanked by two windows)

"In the Key of E"

Text from the song, "The Song Will Remain" by Peter Knight of Steeleye Span. Background handwritten music by Uncle Phil Cuccurullo.

"Our Tree House"

with text by Rachel Carson and John Keats

"Our Tree House" 7"x5.5"x2.5" glass mosaic on wood with clock and text {main text by Rachel Carson/ additional text by John Keats } ©Diana Maria Rossi 2009-2015

"The sedge is wither'd from the lake, And no birds sing." John Keats from "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" 1819

2015 and 2016Here and Now

"K i s m e t"..(for more on Kismet please go here)

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"In the Key of E"

"Our Tree House"

2015 and 2016
Here and Now

"K i s m e t"..
(for more on Kismet please go here)