In these four images below, you can see how the mosaic design has started to come to life.
Above: The original Quake Mosaic Design, which I gridded out and printed to scale onto 406 separate 11” x 17” sheets of paper. Then in community workshops, each artist was given one random paper ‘section’ and asked follow the colors indicated (ie, blue area on the paper = mosaic material in any blue they like). There were only two exceptions: the gray stripes in the design indicated not gray mosaic but ‘anything goes’ areas - to be filled with any mosaic donations the artist wanted; and the white circle areas were to be filled with broken mirror shards. Other than that, the rest of the decisions were up to each artist.
Above: The Quake Mosaic Schematic. Here is the design gridded into the 406 equal sections. I printed each section onto 11” x 17” sheets with the help of Frye’s Printing. I posted this schematic at every mosaic workshop. When an artist finished their 11” x 17” section, they would place an ‘X’ over it.
Above: All of the finished mosaic sections (about 390), digitally laid out on the design grid. There are still about 20 sections left to be built.
Above: Showing the design underneath the completed sections, we can imaging what the Quake Mosaic might look like once it is completed and installed.