A Little Bit about Mosaic

One stone can be attractive and interesting with nice texture, shape, color etc., …but after all it is only a “stone”.
A stone next to a stone is already the beginning of a composition, of togetherness, of a connection between the stones.
Mosaic –well that is already something completely different. Where you put the stones, their colors and their shape creates a bigger picture with a visual meaning to it which connects the stones to the picture and the visual message is conveyed.
Mosaic may be considered an ancient and “primitive” art form since it was widely used in the ancient world. But its simplicity, its beauty and the basic techniques of creating it are the parameters that have kept it alive as an art form from ancient times till today, while other ancient art forms have disappeared with the times.
We know of many uses for mosaic, whether religious, where mosaic was used in Roman temples, Greek temples and other places of worship, or secular, where floors and statues made of mosaic decorated palaces of kings and the homes of nobility.