"Chorus at the Wake of the Sun, 2012" by Kate Rattray
“I like the idea of duality in symbols, so here is an eye, but it is also the sun (pupil) in the sky (iris). It is an apocalyptic vision; a chorus of birds within the sun are trying to escape as the sun dies and turns black. (In the mosaic the sun is made using an iridescent bronze/ gold glass that in some light turns black.) The mosaic was made over 3 years, a painstaking process using pieces of stained glass cut into strips and ground to a point to fit into the circle. The strips are set on edge to show the lovely fleck in the middle of the blue glass that you wouldn't normally see in a stained glass art piece. The birds are made by cutting the glass around to leave the shape and filling it with grout (my "drawing in grout" method).”
