{"id":3043,"date":"2013-06-13T09:07:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T08:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/?p=3043"},"modified":"2013-06-13T09:07:48","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T08:07:48","slug":"art-community-and-belonging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/art-community-and-belonging\/","title":{"rendered":"Art, community and belonging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3034\" alt=\"Furzedown Kite Mosaic\" src=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/DSC_0094.jpg\" width=\"349\" height=\"347\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For ages I have had this idea of using mosaics as a way of promoting a sense of community and belonging&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The idea has rumbled in my head for years&#8230;to create a <strong>mosaic trail<\/strong> round a neighbourhood, inviting people to make a mosaic that depicts a community symbol&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and for the mosaics that are made to be displayed in people&#8217;s porches, front of houses, windows..so that over time, a trail develops and people walk around seeing the community mosaics here and there and wondering &#8220;<em>Why do I keep seeing that, what is it about?<\/em>&#8221; or feeling &#8220;<em>We have a community around us, we are part of something bigger<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Furzedown Kite Mosaic\" src=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/DSC_0872.jpg\" width=\"465\" height=\"697\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then it struck me, not only do we have a thriving community right here in our neighbourhood, which boasts its own Yahoo group 1500 strong, an annual Festival and Fun Day (coming up this Saturday!), but we also have a symbol! If you draw a line around the boundary of our ward (the smallest political division of land in the UK), it makes the form of a kite. For years, the Furzedown Kite has been used as a symbol of the neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;for the last 4 weeks, past <em>Glittering Shards<\/em> students from the neighbourhood and myself have gathered in in my studio to cut glass and tiles in preparation for the first <strong>Furzedown Mosaic Trail<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3003\" alt=\"Mosaic Furzedown Kite\" src=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Furzedown-Kite-Mosaic.jpg\" width=\"436\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Furzedown-Kite-Mosaic.jpg 623w, https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Furzedown-Kite-Mosaic-292x300.jpg 292w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I advertised it for the first time this week and immediately, people started to book\u00a0 and email to say how they thought it was such a wonderful idea.<\/p>\n<p>The mosaic trail comes out of feeling passionately that art (making and owning) should be a communal, not just individual, experience. This is\u00a0 just a small way of contributing to that.<\/p>\n<p>If you are local, all the details are <a title=\"Mosaic Trail\" href=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/furzedown-kite-mosaics\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you are not local, why not start one in your neighbourhood?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For ages I have had this idea of using mosaics as a way of promoting a sense of community and belonging&#8230; The idea has rumbled in my head for years&#8230;to create a mosaic trail round a neighbourhood, inviting people to make a mosaic that depicts a community symbol&#8230; &#8230;and for the mosaics that are made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,45,18,46],"tags":[168,77,134],"class_list":["post-3043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-mosaics","category-mosaic-debates-controversy","category-mosaic-loving","category-my-mosaic-courses","tag-community-art","tag-community-mosaics-2","tag-mosaic-workshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}