Friday, August 03, 2007

Walls

At the risk of seeming like a dull boy who dreams of theater but actually spends his time in libraries, let me show you a rather nifty mosaic wall recently crafted by some local artists for the Public Library here in Del Mar. (The library itself is in a building constructed as a Catholic church; for several decades after the parish of St James moved to nextdoor Solana Beach, the building was used as a restaurant.) I'd admired the clever use of found objects in the mosaic for a while, but only just learned that the found objects were in fact donated by citizens of the town, and include all sorts of things of sentimental and occasionally historical value. Among them is a piece of another wall (below right): the Berlin Wall!