I thought it a good idea to show my clients ‘mosaic progress’ and e-mailed a photo of the first completed one………
‘a bit worryingly, I can’t read the words… Don’t seem to match up to the words in your design (attached)?’
This was part of a slightly concerned reply from my commissioner who was showing me this was not as the agreed design.
Who is completely right, it is double dutch and does not match the agreed design.
The real subtext and really more conerning is who the *&$ӣnghell wants a mosaic that no one can read and cost loads of money?
So I reversed the image in photoshop, reminding my client this was the reverse technique and all would be well when the paper was washed off.
I got a reassured reply and noticed a CC on the address.
Had I lost my mind completly? must have been the question……..
not yet that comes a bit later after a few more thousand rocks have been cut.
For some reason I decided not to sweep up the chippings and see exactly what the waste product looked like and how much of it there was. I thought I would keep each mosaics waste chippings seperatly and make another series of 7 somethings with them at later date.
But:
Chippings were penetrating through the soles of other peoples slippers, geting in the turnups in my jeans which latter became scattered over the bedroom floor, causing barefoot surprises. They were embeded in the kitchen floor lino, travelling in on the soles of peoples shoes. I even noticed chippings over the dogs testicles where he had laid down on them.
So I thought I’d better get a grip, and just throw the stuff out and bring peace back to peoples lives.
