Play in the City 2013

When I was reading the mosaic for Thursday, I noticed that it was focused almost entirely on sight. I therefore decided that I was going to make a mosaic out of everything but sight: I only wrote down things I heard, smelled, or touched on the train ride into Philly, in Philly, and then out of Philly.

I use several photos of this trip, some key words, and some part of my wall pappers of my phone to create this mosaic. The combination of those element can express my mood and feeling during the trip.

One thing that magic garden impressed most is the diversity of materials they used, I always figured mosaic should be a simple piece of art,but when I walked in the place,the huge art piece made by millions of small ones really shocked me.The use of mirror pieces should be my favorite,since it made the art piece unique to everybody who sees it.The reflection of every visitors can be part of this masterpiece.

In my mosaic, I tried to make scattered picture a whole by putting pictures taken at similar angles aside,from the sky to views downstairs,making it continuous somehow.I also inserted one mosaic of my face in it,half taken at the garden and half taken at night.It's interesting to put broken pieces together and endow a new meaning inside.

"a brief history of the future":

She wasn’t paying attention to which streets they were passing.

And her feet hurt.

And she wondered when Mexican groceries moved into the Italian Market. 

“Has it been an hour yet?”

“Nah, 50 minutes.”

“We’re supposed to be here for an hour, but I think we’ve seen almost everything.”

“There’s too much here to see everything.”

Far

too

much

My mosaic is made of tons of pictures from my Friday trip to Magic Garden. The main photo is about two childs playing on a swing. I also include the original photo below. And the background is a collage of more than three hundred photos that I took on my trip to South Philadelphia. So you probably can't see the small phtos clearly.

It is serendipity that lead us to the Magic Garden. It is serendipity that help us find the other shimmering mosaics. It is serendipity that "guide" us to this children's playground. Our city experience was like a child's play. We stumbled into things we never imagined to see. We climbed onto the strings only kids would play with. That's why I made this child-like mosaic.

Each mosaic tells a shimmering story. It's where we could find serendipity.