At the Mercy of War.

Sharbat Gula's green eyes were immortalized on the cover of National Geographic in 1985. You might have seen her at your dentist's office, or picking up your mail.

She got your attention. 

She was the inspiration for my second eye mosaic. 

Gula was just 12 when Steve McCurry took her picture in a refugees camp in Peshawar along Pakistan's frontier with Afghanistan.


Now in her 40s, Gula is still in Peshawar, one of at least 1.5 million Afghan refugees who resides in Pakistan. But as of October 2016, she is in police custody on charges of possessing a fake Pakistani national identification card. 

Her mug shot  illustrates the  sad story Gula shares with countless women and children at the mercy of wars they did not started or want.

She faces seven to 14 years in prison and a fine of $3,000 to $5,000 if convicted.

I am not sure how to help her, but I would gladly build an other mosaic of Gula's eyes, and donate half of the profit of the sale if someone would commission such a piece. 

Yezidi people suffer in even worse ways Gula is suffering. I have realized a set of 8 mosaics of the eyes of Yezidi children and women and am still trying to find a way to organize a sale or auction for them. 

I will donate half of the profit to the Free Yezidi Foundation, an organization dedicated to relieving the sufferings of the Yezidi people. 


We are in need of help to organize this event. If you believe you could help,  please contact me at
frederic.lecut@mosaicblues.com or Allyson who is the US responsible for Free Yezidi Foundation at Allyson.nelson@gmail.com.




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I am a French mosaic artist based in Alabama. My Art is about Inspiring People.

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Flipping the Mystery Mosaic

As Resident Artist of the Wiregrass Museum of Art, I installed the Mystery Mosaic last April. 

This mosaic, at 50 x 50" (125 x 125 cm) is the biggest baddest free standing piece I have designed to this date.  

The coolissime aspect of this project is that this Mosaic would be built by the Visitors to the Museum ! They were the very ones who would actually be laying the 4096 little tiles on the model I had designed without telling anyone what the final mosaic would be ! 

Hence the dramatic "Mystery Mosaic" name !

We had planned it would take 2 month to lay the 4,400 tiles of the mosaic. It took 10 days and a group of very dedicated High School students !

The Mosaic in designed in Opus Pixellatum was realized upside down. 

On July 21st, I flipped the piece diuring the Art after Hours event at the Museum and the public, including some who had participated in the building, were able to see it for the first time. 



Flipping the Mystery Mosaic from Frederic Lecut on Vimeo.

 

I am a French Mosaic artist based in Alabama. My Art is about Inspiring people, I am presently working on huge portraits of the eyes of Yezidi Refugees and on an other Mosaic Community Project involving several hundreds participants in partnership with Troy University in Dothan and the Wiregrass Museum of Art.

If you would like to discuss how to use mosaics to develop communities or are interested by other aspects of my work, please contact me by phone at (334) 798 1639 or by email at frederic.lecut@mosaicblues.com

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Green Eyes Family

The First Pair of Eyes I created was named Green Eyes.

She was inspired by a picture found a long time ago in a French Magazine.

Green Eyes flew to Dubai in 2013, and went from there to Pakistan.

in 2014, I created Mariam and Miriam based on the same image.

2 sisters in Alabama

Marian flew with me to France in June 2014. She is now in Londinieres, a small town of Normandy. 

Mariam in France.

Miriam won a 1st Prize at the Rudd Center for the Art Show in August 2014.

Miriam in Alabama, July 2014

In April 2015, I started to work on 2 smaller versions of the 2 Green eyes sisters, They will fly with me to France next July, with the Pomegranate Tree and an other secret piece. They are Reverse Method built on a mesh.

2 Green eyes sisters 2015.

These 2 Sisters are mirror images of each other. One of them has a Red Head  Scarf and a Blue Veil, these colours are reversed on her sister. 

Red Turban Green Eyes - 2-15

Blue Turban Green Eyes - 2015

Earlier this year, I was contacted by Amarjeet Singh from India, asking me if he could inspire himself from the original green eye to create a mosaic of his own. I was pleased that he was kind enough to ask. He could have simply done it without asking me. that was a very positive point for him. I told him to go ahead. 

On June 6, 2015, Amarjeet sent me a picture of his excellent work. 

Amarjeet Singh's Green eyes. - New Delhi, India

So now we have a total of 6 Green Eyes mosaics, based on the same original design, of different size and different colours.

One is in Pakistan, one is in Londinieres, France, one is in Dothan, Alabama, USA. 2 will soon be in France, one is in New Delhi, India...

So I had the idea of releasing the original design for any person interested to try to create another Green Eyes mosaic. I have used open source softwares for years, freely, because people released the result of their work for free on the net. Now I am doing the same with green eyes. 

Here is the original design of the 2011 Green Eyes.

Please use it to create your own version of her. You do not have to respect the original colours. You can modify her. It would be nice to mention me when you publish your work, but you do not even have to. I will create a private Facebook page for all those of you who decide to create a Green eyes mosaic, who would like to publicize their work.

I hope to help lots of you realize how creative you can be and that you will enjoy becoming part of the great international community of mosaicists ! 

If you need a higher definition of the model, please contact me at frederic.lecut@gmail.com.

I will also try to answer all questions you may have to help you build your own Green Eyes. Good Luck, please keep in touch !

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. 

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