Here's a new piece of mosaic art that I'm excited to share. Its a new shower surround mosaic for our public bathroom at Welcome Home Guesthouse in Antigua Guatemala. It's inspired by the surf at Monterrico, about two hours south of Antigua on the Pacific coast of Guatemala. Going there has been a wonderful "escape' from my idyllic life in Antigua. The piece was completed using readily available commercial tile from a local hardware store, along with shells, and stones, and

Yesterday was 12 Batz in the Mayan sacred calendar, a day favoring the arts and artists, and means "thread" or, more specifically, the thread of time. The glyph of Batz shows a spindle with time wound up at the top, becoming history as it unwinds down between the dualities of life shown on each side. This is a beautiful opportunity to share with you the results of from my project, "The Nawal Garden", where I teach mosaic techniques for the garden while we produce a mosaic rep

Having stayed at the house for so many years before calling it “my home”, it was not that difficult to adapt to living here. It has, in fact, been perhaps one of the most inspired, comforting, fulfilling, productive, and enriching periods and places in my life. The great love that I feel from Martita and Oscar is like that of my own grandparents, whose presence I also feel more acutely since moving in. While some may shiver at the notion of living with the spirits of the dead

Over the last several months I have been creating some fantastic new mosaics here at home in Antigua Guatemala. Having assumed responsibility for my friends’ Marta and Elsa Diaz’s family home and guesthouse in December of last year, I have had not only the space to work on new pieces, but to create some new works specifically for the house. In addition, living at the house has given me a unique, beautiful, and creative vision that I feel I’m ready to share. It’s suddenly time

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