Some serious mosaicing going on.
Eoghan has had a busy couple of days down in the studio. As you can see from the pictures he has cracked the best way to lay the tiles, going for a circular motif.
Here's Eoghan's more technical explanation for all you mosaic buffs out there;
"Now we’ve got Phoolan’s surface primed and sanded to give it a good ‘key’ for adhesion we had to decide which way we were going to lay the tile pieces or ‘tesserae’ on to the body. The styles of positioning the mosaics are standardised and dictate texture and movement in the piece, and this is referred to as ‘Andamento’. None of the recognised ‘Opera’ or styles would have worked satisfactorily on Phoolan as the surface wasn’t flat or even, and each area was either concave, convex or in some places both, so we settled on a celtique spiral motif which would hug and follow all contours and eliminate any straight or regular lines whilst appearing organic and natural. Once we had done the toenails in an iridescent white we had a reference point to begin with, and started out with manageable sized circles of black iridescent tesserae decreasing into a spiral from which other spirals could sprout. The adhesive we used was Ardex X77, a 'flexible', or polymer enhanced cement based product, which we know from experience is the only adhesive to use in an important piece of work such as this."
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I think you will agree it’s a pretty groovy start.
Expect pictures to come thick and fast now as we move into 'Operation Phoolan’.
