Life and the City
the web of life hidden beneath every footstep
My idea for this mosaic was to portray the “rivers of life” that traverse the world beneath our feet — a flow like tendrils or neurons — with a background of rectilinear patterns. Buildings. Cities. Streets. I’ve reversed the foreground/backgrounds from what we might expect. The natural flows dominant in the image, as if we were observing the rivers from below, the distant man-made objects a blur of background noise.
As Thoreau once said — “Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
I have outlined the lower & left sides of the tendrils in black stone, to give the tendrils a three-dimensional appearance. I’ve set this mosaic stepping stone, aligning the shadows to the north and east.
This is the second in a series of five stepping stones.
