ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT ART

This is my first try at a Mosaic. I did this sometime in 1999 or2000 while on our second tour with DOD in Israel. The tile was picked from the scraps of a construction site, broken and cut into small pieces. The petals of the flowers are made of broken window glass I picked up on the side of the road and the center of the flowers are made of small stones picked up on the Mediterranean beaches near Tel Aviv. The green objects in the center is centuries old glass picked up from the cliffs and beach areas north of Tel Aviv at a place where the town of Appolonia once stood. This town made and sold glass for tableware and windows for a couple of thousand years. After the glass was drown off the remaining slag at the bottom of the pits in which the sand was heated by charcoal and melted into glass was dumped over the walls . All this slag still contained a great deal of glass mixed with the remains of the charcoal. Over the centuries this glass has washed out of the ground as the ocean has encroached on the old walls of the city. You can still pick up bits of smoothed glass on the beach and a large drainage ditch that has formed near where the northern wall once stood.