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Thursday, November 12, 2015

YEZIDI Eyes


In Syria and Northern Iraq, Yezidi mens and boys are being massacred while Yezidi women and girls, some as young as 9 years old, are being sold, raped and enslaved by Islamic State terrorists who consider they are Devil worshippers.


Some of the Yezidi have been able to flee the horrors of the genocide, some are still in sexual slavery; some were killed; some committed suicide to escape their ordeal. 




The idea of these women and girls suffering is very distressing. The victims could be our wives, our sisters or our daughters.  But just lamenting the situation from my comfortable home in Alabama does not do much good. So I wondered if I could use my art to actually help.

2 month ago, I contacted a number of NGO involved in helping the refugees from Iraq and Syria. I  proposed to realize mosaic portraits of Yezidi Children. These portraits would then be auctioned to raise money. I would give 50 % of the profit to the cause. We would need lots of publicity around the event to raise public awareness of the situation of the Yezidi people.

The Free Yezidi Foundation in an international organization hosted in the Netherlands. It was started by Ms Pari Ibrahim, a remarkable Iraqi woman, and they are doing an amazing work. I have been in regular contact with their contact in the USA. 

I decided I had to do something special, something that had not been done before. I conceived a different way to build mosaics. I do not think anybody has ever worked like this before. The look of these mosaics will be unique. 

However, like for any new process, it requires experimentations and adjustments, discussion with various people. A friend helped me greatly to drastically improve my initial design process...

I realized a First prototype early in October. 

The first prototype.

Because the colours of some of the tiles I received from my supplier were slightly different from what I had ordered, I was not satisfied by the result. However, I realized that my concept was valid - the Right eye is beautiful.  I just needed to solve the problem of the tiles colours, 


I am now presently working on a Second prototype, I have increased the definition of my design.


The second prototype under construction.


I am building this mosaic following my regular reverse method. I decided to work in black and white at this time as it is a little easier to control the 
actual colours of the tiles. Hopefully I should have this second mosaic mounted by the end of November. 

I have learned a lot with these 2 first  prototypes. This type of mosaic has to be laid differently from what I usually do with bigger tesserae

If all goes well I will design several models in December and start working on them in January 2016.



 


My goal is to organize a sale by the end of Spring. I have no idea of the way we will be able to organize this, and all help will be welcome. If you like this project and would like to participate, please let me know at frederic.lecut@gmail.com, or call me at (334) 798 1639.

You can also visit the Free Yezidi Foundation site to lean more about their remarkable work, about the Yezidi themselves, their religion, their culture, the challenges ahead of them, and possibly make a small donation.

 


I am a modern mosaic artist with a deep admiration for ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine Arts. You can see some of my own mosaics on my site mosaicblues.
 






If you are interested by this project or by my work in general 
or if you would simply like to drop me a line, please 
contact me by email at frederic.lecut@gmail.com  
or by phone at (334) 798 1639. 
 

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Saturday, November 7, 2015

Baobab of Life

The tree of life is a common motif in various world religions, mythologies, and philosophies. It alludes to the interconnection of all life on our planet. The term tree of life may also be used as a synonym for sacred tree. 



I have made many mosaic trees of life, and you can see some of them on a dedicated page of my mosaicblues web site. 




I am presently working on 2 more of them. 

  • "Le Grenadier" is a bigger version of my Pomegranate Tree presently displayed in my studio in France. It is almost exclusively made of glass tiles. 




  • "Baobab of Life" is a worked commissioned by a collector and friend of mine from Dothan. 


The Baobab of Life.

It includes my three usual materials : Stone, Glass and Ceramics. 

Details of the Roots

Both pieces should be available in December.

And Grenadier would make an amazing Christmas Present...



I am a modern mosaic artist with a deep admiration for ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine Arts. You can see my own mosaics on my site at mosaicblues.
 




If you are interested by this piece or my work in general 
or if you would simply like to drop me a line, please 
contact me by email at frederic.lecut@gmail.com  
or by phone at (334) 798 1639. 
 
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Sunday, November 1, 2015

Wiregrass Mosaic Project - Troy University - Part II


During our 2 October sessions we produced enough tiles to cover our  rectangular table and benches. 




During our next November 12 session we will try to produce enough pieces to cover the round tables. 

We should get help from Students from 2 Dothan High Schools to realize this stage of the project.



Because there will be much more small pieces to produce for these round tables, I decided to simplify the original designs to let people be more creative. 

Some pattern will simply be empty shape, the only important thing being to not build anything outside of the limits of the pattern...

Good ! 


The accuracy or the individual beauty of the piece itself is not extremely important. What is very important is to NOT glue any material outside of the limits of the individual pattern, which would oblige me to cut out the excessive material when I glue the pieces onto the table itself. 

Not so Good !

Early in 2016 we will build the pieces we need to cover the circular benches. Our plan is to have completed the project in the Spring



This is a first project, I would like to extend it more widely in the future and reach out to many participants of our Wiregrass community. 



The Principle we are following here is that each participants create one individual part of the project. each person contributes a stone to the Church, and it is the quilting together of all these individual pieces that brings a beautiful and harmonious result.

We will need help from many people with various areas of expertise. If you would like learn more about this Project, and perhaps contribute to it, please contact :

  • Donna Miller by email at dmiller@troy.edu or by phone at (334) 983 6556 ext 1321, or

 

I am a modern mosaic artist with a deep admiration for ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine Arts. You can see my own mosaics on my site at mosaicblues.
 




If you are interested by my work or would like to drop me a line please contact me by email at frederic.lecut@gmail.com or by phone at (334) 798 1639. 



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