Double Helix
Mosaic stepping stone
With this mosaic, I wanted to experiment more with larger tesserae, to let the natural grain & beauty of the stone appear.
I’ve chosen for the background stones red & rose travertine, laid in alternating wide & narrow lines. For the helix, I’ve chosen to use a light green (Nishan) marble juxtaposed against a darker (Peacock) green. The “genes” of the DNA strand I chose to use a dark red (Aegean Claret), edge-on. The black (a new marble I’ve discovered called Nero Assoluto — absolute black) line slices through the helix — over one strand and under the other — divides the mosaic in half.
My idea for this mosaic was to somehow depict the moment of impetus just before the DNA strand divides — a black, cosmic thunderbolt-like thread that finds the gap between the strands, dividing the universe momentarily into equal parts light & dark, yin & yang. Is this divine intervention? Or simply molecular biology? Yes to both perhaps…
This is stepping stone number three of a set of five, now placed in the thyme garden. Hoping to finish four and five by the end of August.
