Laurel Skye

Artist Quotes:

• "I try to teach people how to do things for very little money, how to recycle, how to find the things that people say at the end of the yard sale, 'Oh, it's crap. You can have it for a quarter.' Those are the ones we want. Those are our treasures."
• "It's so wonderful because you can take all the junk that nobody wants and people pass up because it's pink or it's yellow, and that's not their color. And I tell people, 'Don't care about the surface, don't care about the color, look for the shape.'"
• "We look for shapes. We're not looking for perfection or beauty, because we're going to do that part. All we're looking for is a base. Or we're looking for something that's broken, that we can smash up and make into tiles to put over something else."
• "Just fascinating, the concept of time standing still. That time is no longer linear, and that there's a time-space reality, because when you're doing mosaic tiling, you move into that magical intersection where time and timelessness intersect. And in that moment you forget that you're hungry, you forget to pee, and it's that magical place that everybody wants to be when they forget about time. And mosaic tiling takes you there."

Instruction:

• Laurel Skye also teaches a series of workshops in both direct and indirect mosaic as well as mille fiori at SkyeLab in Arcata, California.
• She can be contacted via email for details