A mosaic is a pattern or image made of small regular or irregular pieces of colored stone, glass or ceramic, held in place by plaster/mortar, and covering a surface. Mosaics are often used as floor and wall decoration, and were particularly popular in the Ancient Roman world. Wikipedia
Newham Mosaic is using the metaphor of a mosaic to represent the bringing together of people of different colours, cultures, ages, genders, sexualities, beliefs and individual charactistics and histories into a whole that makes a beautiful pattern.
The image featured in this post is by artist British Matt Small and is from the Bored Panda website.
Matt Small is a British contemporary artist with a strong, compelling style—one that uses discarded objects, like car bonnets and old signs, as a canvas.
“The theme of my work is young, dispossessed people: individuals who feel undervalued, who don’t have a voice, who get looked over,” explains Small.
While primarily a painter, he has also taken on recreating portraits of real people using scrap metal, which is symbolic of the feeling of being without value.
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