Cynthia Fisher

My mosaic art is always a dance of materials, constraint of laying motifs, and exacting the most movement from static hard edged forms. I like to use mathematical principals as a starting point on the premise that art and math are inseparable, and when brought down to their basics inherently beautiful. One can begin with geometric forms, but how they are “filled in” leaves the artist with an untold number of possibilities. After completing the central elements in the traditional Roman technique, opus tessellatum, I knew I had had enough of the conformist approach. For the remainder of the artwork I went strictly NON-math to depict the beauty of randomly placed lines and shapes that when completed have their own logic and set of rules.