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The left taken November 2018 the right one taken March 9, 2020. https://www.lindacundiff.net/lindas-mosaic-blog/the-howarths-of-swansea-and-fall-river-massachusetts monthly 0.5 2025-01-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/32acba85-ef1f-4ab3-8fd9-a69043c6d464/Sarah+Howarth+and+her+Swansea+House%2C+1876.jpg Linda's Mosaic Blog - The Howarths of Fall River and Swansea, Massachusetts - Make it stand out Sarah Howarth and her Swansea House, 1876 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/97e76238-8dd1-43d9-a1de-277716be1fff/Howarth+House+1876+cropped.jpg Linda's Mosaic Blog - The Howarths of Fall River and Swansea, Massachusetts - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1724882354637-NQ6R77PO4ZCNIH8TXSBD/Joseph+Howarth+age+about+44+color.jpg Linda's Mosaic Blog - The Howarths of Fall River and Swansea, Massachusetts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1724882354675-9VMB3ATNESRBGX1O8RWY/Sarah+Anne+Hamlet+Howarth.jpg Linda's Mosaic Blog - The Howarths of Fall River and Swansea, Massachusetts https://www.lindacundiff.net/lindas-mosaic-blog/the-cundiffs-of-bedford-virginia monthly 0.5 2024-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1631750318693-9RFBIME50X72WU9NFQCR/Mapscape+of+Cundiff+Family+of+Bedford+VA+1761-1890.jpg Linda's Mosaic Blog - The Cundiffs of Bedford Virginia - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.lindacundiff.net/lindas-mosaic-blog/a-fabulous-fail monthly 0.5 2024-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/89e12009-bc56-40dc-8663-f03aa66bb214/Black+Madonna+of+Tindari-Oliveri.jpg Linda's Mosaic Blog - A Fabulous Fail - Make it stand out Black Madonna of Tindari and Oliveri- 2021 https://www.lindacundiff.net/lindas-mosaic-blog/my-art-for-aging-gracefully monthly 0.5 2024-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1627477035584-JTL6YYLHCS4LE8JO6X7R/Ven+Meditation+on+my+Evolving+Hair+Color.jpg Linda's Mosaic Blog - My “Art” for Aging Gracefully - Make it stand out Venn Meditation on Aging Hair Color, 6x8”, 24 carat gold smalti, lustre glass, brass and aluminum wire, rock tumbler belts, flagstone remnant from my yard. https://www.lindacundiff.net/lindas-mosaic-blog/my-creative-sources monthly 0.5 2021-07-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1622311894730-CEQNGPZYGYFNP98XP791/Blue+vase.jpg Linda's Mosaic Blog - My Creative Sources - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1622311955187-5KADKMY3XA0XA20ZROXM/IMG_6672.jpg Linda's Mosaic Blog - My Creative Sources - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1622311678047-FXXSVPJU9ER2OQE5RKAG/IMG_6695.JPG Linda's Mosaic Blog - My Creative Sources - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.lindacundiff.net/lindas-mosaic-blog/Blog Post Title One-6rbnb monthly 0.5 2021-07-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/7e1a3f99-05df-44ff-920c-dff56850d2d4/5c-+photo+Collecting+from+Mashnee+beach.jpg Linda's Mosaic Blog - Rocks on the beach - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1627421263851-66THXL40PKE7CNLZPE3G/Playingwith+Rocks+Horizontal+smaller.jpg Linda's Mosaic Blog - Rocks on the beach - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.lindacundiff.net/about-linda daily 1.0 2024-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/aa7dc5ba-f664-4334-b568-b36cb5fea0f1/Linda+with+Heart+1.jpg About Linda - I’ve always been a maker. I am a mosaic artist who has been making a wide variety of mosaics since 2010. I have been much more prolific since 2015 when I retired from my 38-year career in hospital community health services. I then worked part-time as the COO at a small non-profit providing wrap-around health care services to homeless women. By the fall of 2020 I fully retired (while isolating in the middle of the Covid pandemic), and have been mosaicing intensely since then. I started this website as a way to keep track of my work and see my progress, and for an easy way to share it. I have deep gratitude for my daughter Rose Gerber’s gift of developing and supporting the site. I had been a “maker” of various genres all my life, sewing my own clothes, and did many craft activities with children. I bought my first (ancient) sewing machine when I got my first nursing job in 1971. Continued sewing through the 1980s, and dabbled in embroidery, needlepoint, macrame, weaving and even ceramics but eventually fell out of love with all of it. I bought a floor loom in 1977, and kept trying to create unique and 3D work, but the precise mathematical skills needed for complex weaving did not interest me, though I collected a ton of yarn! I was first magnetically and irresistibly attracted to mosaics when I saw my friend Betsy Rodman nipping little pieces of shiny glass at music festivals and purchased some of her small mosaic art. Betsy and Suzanne Owayda opened Mosaic Oasis, a mosaic studio and supply shop in my town. I took my first class there in 2010 and I was hooked. My first piece was a sphere with glass, and I’ve continued to do a lot of 3D forms. I have played with and experimented with many materials such as hand cut beach stone, slate and shale, found objects, shells and fresh water pearls, slag and cullet glass, porcelain, ceramics, and of course traditional marble, stained glass and smalti. I like to feel a personal connection to each piece, or have it tell a story. I did a couple of pieces in 2023-4 reflecting my passion for social justice, with a focus on gun violence and war. I have exhibited at many New England Mosaic Society shows at the Schwamb Mill, Somerville Museum, Post Road Art Center in Marlboro, at Lasell College, Attleboro Art Museum and the Narrows Center for the Arts in Fall River (2024) and at the sculpture installation at Art in the Orchard in Easthampton (2018). I also had two pieces in “Please Touch the Art” exhibit at the Mosesian Center for the arts June-September of 2019. My mosaiced chair won prizes at Arlington’s “Chairful Where You Sit” in 2019 and 2022. I have had small pieces exhibited in the “100 Mosaic Moments” for the Society of American Mosaic Artists in 2018, 2020, and 2024. I love The Ruins Project in Whitsett, Pennsylvania. I have contributed over 70 small (some very small!) mosaic pieces to that magical collaborative mosaic art installation. It is in an abandoned coal mine, dedicated to those who come from coal. It is owned, operated and curated by Rachel Sager, mosaic artist and writer extraordinaire. Rachel has been a major inspiration for my recent work in many ways. I work out of my home in Arlington, MA. I have a (very messy) studio in my basement but often work under better lighting in my dining room, on my patio and at my partner George’s house on Cape Cod. I have a station in my shed for making malmischiato (hand pulled filati made from smalti) with a blow torch. I am very grateful for the thoughtful technical and logistical support from my life partner George Silvis. Also much appreciation for our good friend Jean-François Louis, a talented artisanal carpenter who graciously modifies frames, create stands and other needs such as shaping a cedar log to fit a substrate. Thank you for stopping by my website to see my work. Happy mosaicing! https://www.lindacundiff.net/contact daily 0.75 2020-12-14 https://www.lindacundiff.net/work daily 0.75 2024-08-28 https://www.lindacundiff.net/work/guitarproject monthly 0.5 2020-12-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608494723594-0Z1UCEHG7DUZM9GOR1VL/1a-+Guitar+collage.PNG Works 2011-2021 - Guitar Project My old Guild guitar had seen me through so many important life and musical moments 1986-2006; I wanted to create this homage in mosaic to honor it. I bought this 1972 Guild on a whim in 1983 while wandering in Boston with my friend Joan Black- in a music store near Berklee School of music near Mass Ave. For $200. It was probably owned by a student(s), it was cracked on the lower edge from lack of care and humidity. I had no idea if it was any good, I just wanted a guitar again, right that minute! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608494732084-DHDD0KDKJGQJ7V9TH9N7/1d-+Music+in+Your+Eyes-+under+the+strings.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Guitar Project Music in your Eyes- (lyrics are under the strings) I had fallen in love with the Garnet Rogers rendition of his brother Stan’s song. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608494708115-FQI86I6DYY3XFPS0ZQCL/1e-+UU+chalice.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Guitar Project UU Chalice on the (lower left) For many years, on and off, I used this guitar in the Arlington and Belmont Unitarian Universalist churches to perform and lead sing-alongs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608494710501-KMWYIMBMCOU86PHVHWD5/1b-+Guitar+complete+front.PNG Works 2011-2021 - Guitar Project I bought this 1972 Guild on a whim in 1983 while wandering in Boston with my friend Joan Black- in a music store near Berklee School of music near Mass Ave. For $200. It was probably owned by a student(s), it was cracked on the lower edge from lack of care and humidity. I had no idea if it was any good, I just wanted a guitar again, right that minute! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608494707381-N7DV7X2SRRT3D8JAMRF7/1f-+Labyrinths+and+Tree+of+Life-+upper+half+of+front.JPG Works 2011-2021 - Guitar Project After learning to mosaic in 2010, I was inspired to apply glittery glass and pottery and various permutations of such to my old unplayable and unfixable Guild. It was still an early work; eleven years later in 2021 I would use different materials and designs. It was therapeutic at the time, and it has held together well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608494714412-HEKM84FJEZXWZZ1OPX6Z/1c-+Guitar+front+without+neck.png Works 2011-2021 - Guitar Project The Garden Labyrinth (upper right) represents the garden design in my own Arlington house that I chose for the suitable back yard and immediately dug and planted in 2003. The Cretan Labyrinth and G-clef, trees, rainbows and other doodles were my frequent meditative stress and boredom relievers. The Tree of Life is the symbol of interdependent web of all existence (UU 7th principle), and is a song we sang at the Cambridge UU church: “Ain't you got a right to the Tree of Life…” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608494713692-VLP8SL65RQP8FVFKBNR7/2a-+Flamingo+and+She+Rises+Like+a+Dolphin+Kate+Wolf.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Guitar Project My 1980's- divorced and seeking an independent identity: "She Rises Like the Dolphin", song by Kate Wolf Flamingo- my symbol of flamboyance and breaking free https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608494716146-O57J73R5L6JMYNCT1YRF/2b-+Sunset.png Works 2011-2021 - Guitar Project Sunset from Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park. An annual ritual in the 1980-90s when ever we went camping. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608494711881-R2J9Y7FQ52QLP7YJ4R6J/2c-+Campfire+and+sunset-upper+left+side.JPG Works 2011-2021 - Guitar Project Upper left edge- Arlington 1982 to Belmont 1992 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608494732154-QTTOZ02PWRGP0FZX6D1Q/2d-Let+the+Mary+Ellen+Carter+Rise+Again.JPG Works 2011-2021 - Guitar Project Campfire in Blackwoods, Acadia, and the chorus of Stan Roger's song “Let the Mary Ellen Carter rise again!” This was very popular at the campfire sings when the girls were young. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608494731632-JAXPZ01CZB1FKXQIZZKP/2e-+Music+to+Contrdance+to+and+fiddle.JPG Works 2011-2021 - Guitar Project Music to Contradance To- book cover and fiddle. I played guitar with Pat Carol Hayes on fiddle at the Arlington UU church. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608494734617-95P5KRNB5JL7RITIIFUJ/2f-+All+God%27s+Critters.JPG Works 2011-2021 - Guitar Project "All God’s Critters Got a Place in the Choir" by Bill Staines. Fun sing-along with kids, complete with animal noises. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608494721097-5FHZPTRE6CACAFCFTOAL/2g-+Green+Eyes.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Guitar Project "Green Eyes" song by Kate Wolf. This song epitomized my idealized and sexualized (and unrealistic!) concept of romance in the 1980s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608494728558-KPAPDZGB8LAHP7NVVGGG/2h-+Rainbow+Connection.PNG Works 2011-2021 - Guitar Project "The Rainbow Connection" song “what’s so amazing, that keeps us stargazing?” We often sang this song of Sesame Street's Kermit the Frog in the Arlington UU days in the 1980s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608494731704-60FF1TGFGR9R6HPLOZC9/3a-Always+Caught+in+Bad+Weather.png Works 2011-2021 - Guitar Project "Headbanging" song by (Amanda) Rose Gerber, my then young adult daughter. She sang this amazing song at Falcon Ridge Folk Festival right after a dramatic thunder storm stopped her act. “Always caught in bad weather” festival about 2003. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608494734366-0LYXH4N90UA9TT12UWMH/3b-+Falcon+Ridge.png Works 2011-2021 - Guitar Project Falcon Ridge: My Red 1987 VW Westphalia Camper Van and Falcon Ridge Folk Festival button. I camped there usually by myself 1999-2005 when Hurricane knocked it out. G and I rediscovered 2013-2018, and hopefully again in 2022 post-pandemic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608494733385-97WJUFELLSXNVA9B1RQ9/4a-+dragonfly+mosaic-+photoshopped+by+Richard+Stanley.png Works 2011-2021 - Guitar Project Dragonfly- My adopted symbol of transformation and spiritual growth. Gorgeously retouched by Richard Stanley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608494736877-YDRH60JJX9GMZEJ8TMLQ/4b-He%27s+off+to+slay+some+demon+dragonfly.png Works 2011-2021 - Guitar Project "Nobody’s Crying" song by Patty Griffin. “He’s off to slay some demon dragonfly,”- a sad breakup song about being addicted to a guy who’s all wrong. Been there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608494738182-0YESUH058OCH8002780B/4c-+Are+you+happy+now%2C+Feels+Like+Home.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Guitar Project "Are You Happy Now?" Richard Shindell’s humorous Halloween break-up song (I gave my ex the t-shirt), and the aspirational Randy Newman’s “Feels Like Home to Me.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608494738264-9YQLQGL4TA0OJMVK35NV/4d-+More+Love+and+Hazi+Aldas.png Works 2011-2021 - Guitar Project “More Love, to flow in between us…” as a duet Lynn Read and I arranged- by Tim O’Brien and Gary Nicholson, and sung by the Chicks (formerly known as the Dixie Chicks); and Hazi Aldas- the Hungarian house blessing hung in every house in the Transylvanian villages we visited in 2006. “Where there is faith there is love, where there is love there is peace, where there is peace there is blessing, where there is blessing there is God, where there is God, there, there is no need.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608494737897-ID9X0L0D8VSBZE2BX0PM/4e-+Set+My+Dancing+Feet+to+fly.PNG Works 2011-2021 - Guitar Project "I Go Like the Raven" song by Dave Carter - “set my dancing feet to fly.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608494735597-UIV3377O40TOYBSDQ91F/4g-+I+Go+Like+the+Raven.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Guitar Project "I Go Like the Raven" song by Dave Carter https://www.lindacundiff.net/work/mycontributionstothruinsproject monthly 0.5 2024-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608491999252-R5J9G3Q32WSL2EC9BRVM/Malmischiato-+Tiny+Rings.jpg Works 2011-2021 - My contributions to The Ruins Project Tiny rings: I first volunteered to make three rings and Rachel said please do six, so I did and mailed them back to her. Then I said I’d do 10 more, but ended up doing a total of 63! These are 2-inch ceramic rings that are a color study of 600 rings done by mosaic artists from all over the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608491997924-X8ESNP97LHRMMPAUT2HO/Malmischiato-+Gears+with+small+holes.jpg Works 2011-2021 - My contributions to The Ruins Project Gears: The New England Mosaic Society did a Gears project for the Ruins Project. I filled 5 small gears with malmischiato and brass, copper and aluminum wire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/9725b790-f08c-4b0f-b4b9-f2993e24c0ab/Woven+in+Glass-+Homage+to+my+Weaving+Ancestors.jpg Works 2011-2021 - My contributions to The Ruins Project This is an antique 8-inch gear that was probably part of an industrial textile loom powered by coal in the 19th century in New England. My grandmother’s father (East Germany 1882) and her husband’s grandfather (Manchester, England 1960) got their start in the US as weavers in the textile mills of Fall River, MA, 1860-1935. My grandmother also was a master weaver in the 1920s-30s in the same mills. My mother became an accomplished handweaver in the 1980s-1990s. I also did a fair amount of handweaving, but gave it up for the endless creative opportunities in mosaic. I am creating this mosaic as an homage to my foremothers and fathers, using painted stained glass and a bit of malmischiato in the center) Copy and paste the link below to watch a video created by the Charles River Museum of Technology and Innovation featuring this and other works. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/f0d02188-c3b7-42d9-b6f5-e7348ea96d45/Gear+Study+in+Red+Dog.jpg Works 2011-2021 - My contributions to The Ruins Project The study in red dog gear before its three years on the gear wall of The Ruins Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/a9cb00e1-8952-4e12-8e5f-6d0fa4757f61/Gear+Study+in+Red+Dog-+installed+at+The+Ruins.jpg Works 2011-2021 - My contributions to The Ruins Project When I visited in Ruins in 2021 Rachel gave us permission to dig up a bit of red dog. I filled this gear with choice bits of it and when we visited in 2024 I took this photo of it in situ. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/fd687d93-d83e-416b-a340-e778c4321205/Picasiette+house+-Temple+of+Domesticity.jpg Works 2011-2021 - My contributions to The Ruins Project My Scrap House quilt square for the #thepatchhouseproject at #theruinsproject. After cutting up pounds of plates in all hues, I ended up with color scheme of my own house’s interior . The women and the cat are from five Rorstrand porcelain plates from Sweden, and most of the rest is made from vintage Japanese plates. Sort of a temple of domesticity. #theruinsproject #thepatchhouseproject @laticrete https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/46accaf0-6e6e-435e-b4fd-5999a0de3a07/basketweave+quilt+square.jpg Works 2011-2021 - My contributions to The Ruins Project One of three quilt squares I made for the Patch House Quilt for the Ruins Project. This one is called Homespun. It was good challenge for me cutting the white marble and the little black squares in the basket weave. @theruinsproject #ruins project @laticrete @patchhouseproject https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/e97a66da-21cc-40cd-98ad-08769af1bdcc/Blue+quilt+square+1.jpg Works 2011-2021 - My contributions to The Ruins Project This is one of three stone houses I made for The Ruins Patch House Project. The blue sections are lapis lazuli, the white is marble, and the brown is from the unfinished side of travertine tiles left over from someone's bathroom project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/5a9c85d6-1aec-444e-99a7-d389caf15df4/Stone+Patch+House-+Blue+Door.jpg Works 2011-2021 - My contributions to The Ruins Project One of three quilt squares I made for the Patch House Quilt for the Ruins Project. This one is called Red House, and its door is made of blue 24c gold smalti. It has a line of New England stone I foraged from Mashnee beach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/681a979b-841f-4862-90f6-dec9ed187255/IMG_7970.jpg Works 2011-2021 - My contributions to The Ruins Project The stone house quilt at The Ruins Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/b1fb0161-3440-4cb4-88f0-498055ace4a2/IMG_9608.jpg Works 2011-2021 - My contributions to The Ruins Project Two hexagon triptychs I made for The Ruins Project Bee Hive Project color study. They are both all smalti, and the orange one has three Lisa Bonin cabochons in the middle of each hexagon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/f535b659-5502-4322-bca3-f646ca4235e0/IMG_9910.jpg Works 2011-2021 - My contributions to The Ruins Project My study in orange gradations in situ at The Ruins Beehive Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/f72e506a-0041-4429-b440-e71f66f4122f/IMG_9865.jpg Works 2011-2021 - My contributions to The Ruins Project Lady Red Tail on mesh before installation at The Ruins Project. It was made predominantly with stone foraged at the Ruins itself, of red dog and Marcellus shale. The white is marble. I struggled with this one, my first real representational piece. The stone was hard to work with, as it crumbled and flaked expectantly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1533f9d8-36f7-4e80-9a3f-07d9bf87a285/IMG_9965.JPG Works 2011-2021 - My contributions to The Ruins Project Lady Redtail close up after installation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/5a95a782-e6d6-412a-8dd0-24bc49209661/IMG_9966.JPG Works 2011-2021 - My contributions to The Ruins Project Lady Redtail on the wall of the Ruins. She eventually have a tree painted under her to perch on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/0db2438b-64ea-425b-9e32-56168326e5c7/IMG_9967.JPG Works 2011-2021 - My contributions to The Ruins Project Lady Redtail from a distance from outside the Ruins wall. The foreground image is the Beehive- representing the coke ovens that cooked the coal into coke to be made into steel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/c3a0cf18-e2fc-4ddf-9fe3-eeabcbbb3c66/IMG_9968.JPG Works 2011-2021 - My contributions to The Ruins Project Lady Redtail, upper left, in the Ruins Project. August 2024. Behind the picnic table is where George and I foraged the red dog that I used for her head and tail. The brownish and the black shale were foraged elsewhere near the Ruins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1620344249879-9IJ5R9UW6CWHTIMTZVDU/Malmischiato%2Byellow%2Band%2Bgold%2Bpendant.jpg Works 2011-2021 - My contributions to The Ruins Project My brief foray into malmischiato jewelry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/61424b59-8bef-4e4b-b56b-4bfc6f7999f7/Moss+ring+installed+at+Ruins+2025.jpg Works 2011-2021 - My contributions to The Ruins Project This is the filati ring I made for the Ruins Moss Project installed on the Wandering Wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/912f6920-9ab6-4f22-ab3f-3ba7c3efaa43/Moss+rings.jpg Works 2011-2021 - My contributions to The Ruins Project Rachel calls these the ochre rings, but I say they are terra cotta! The color of the photo is not right, see the installed one for a better capture of the color. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/9dbbf1d5-8e8b-4243-b1e5-ea3f69a3babf/IMG_0366.jpg Works 2011-2021 - My contributions to The Ruins Project Moss project- tiny rings https://www.lindacundiff.net/work/recentworks monthly 0.5 2021-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1724803941193-YL2W9YHRW4EUK3P3UACA/Big%252BBlue.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Recent Works My life long connection to and obsession with the color blue drove me to create this abstract with all the blues speaking with each other. About half of the materials are recycled glass and ceramic, much of it from sea glass and recycled glass that an anonymous collector foraged from the beaches and near defunct glass factories on Cape Cod. Making that old glass beautiful and part of my art has been a great joy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/893c18a1-1c9e-46fe-b757-c1cfdc7b4912/Big+Blue+detail+1.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Recent Works The glass balls are called “knock-offs”- called that because they were used in the manufacture of glass vessels as “legs” which were later knocked off. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/df11fe14-5b62-4694-b8f6-376833e2cb59/Big+Blue+detail+2.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Recent Works https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/cc42b31a-9fa0-4bcd-94bb-ce1196de08cf/IMG_8212.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Recent Works No title (yet) but see my (first) blog "My Creative Sources" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/4209bf79-d5f2-4446-bb20-af53855aa571/IMG_8281.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Recent Works These two companion pieces were inspired by the subtle colors of the rocky Mashnee beach, a Cape Cod island, where I have collected rocks for many years. The yellow gold tesserae are from rocks foraged on New England farms by artisans; they are remnants of the sparkling trivets and bread boards they make from slices of ordinary looking rocks. 10X15”, Foraged stone and rocks, slate, slate substrate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/5e2d0ad4-f3a6-4a9e-a94c-3789fea781e6/Desert+Pathways.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Recent Works Desert Pathways Colors of the southwest. 9x12; Stone: chrysocolla, apatite Glass: Italian and Mexican smalti, hand pulled filati, painted glass Ceramic: dishes, handmade bowl, Briare Copper tubing and wire Tinted mortar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/db2713e1-ff32-451d-8bdd-2af4972b078f/IMG_9160.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Recent Works I foraged these rocks and shells in over a decade of summers at the isolated Mashnee Island beach, Cape Cod. I processed them with a hand sledge, a hammer and hardy, a ring saw and an application of sealer. This mosaic of these in a Venn diagram reveals the complex colors and textures, with blue Mexican smalti as the tides. The andamento is arranged to reflect the shifting by the tides and storms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/ba42c356-951e-43ef-848a-9ef800111ef7/IMG_9168.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Recent Works 11x11”; Rocks and shells; The routed triple Venn barn wood frame was designed and produced by Rachel Sager. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/9d950e5e-8e51-4030-ae0c-b0c74bd0e6e5/Ven+Meditation+on+my+Evolving+Hair+Color.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Recent Works “Venn Meditation on my Evolving Hair Color,” or, “Going Gray During the Pandemic.” 2021 Inspired by Rachel Sager as she has a lot of my work lately. Gold smalti, luster glass, Apoxie Sculpt, brass and aluminum wire and broken belts from an old rock tumbler, on blue slate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/76b437dd-a92d-4692-aa7f-f99d76817ded/Blue+dusk+red+sunset.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Recent Works Blue dusk, Red Sunset 2021 (Available) Defaced ceramic tiles and dishes, Gilders Paste Wax, hand-pulled filati. 6 x 8.5 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/867d0f7a-1667-450b-a2ed-05985ced205e/Fibonacci%27s+Blue+Spiral.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Recent Works Fibonacci Blue Spiral 2021 Defaced ceramic tiles, hand-pulled filati. 6 x 9 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1632353365675-7NMBD92CW6IA7PSKQZQI/Bed%2Bof%2BNails.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Recent Works Bed of Nails 2021 Mixed media: rusted 19th century nail cluster, Italian smalti, hand pulled filati, blown glass, slate. 9x9.5 Sold. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1632353588323-QF5RFH824XU4KT1ND1MU/Blue%2BLight%2BRising.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Recent Works Blue Light Rising 2021 Stones: New England field stone, The color blue has always had a dominant/obsessive place in my life and artistic sensibility since my childhood. This work shows the power of blueness rising in a fantasy trip through outer space. Pennsylvania shale and red dog, slate, pyrite. Mexican Smalti, 24C gold smalti, lustre and mirror glass, hand pulled filati, fresh water pearls. 12" x 16" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1621027214472-K87HG2YA3XTNY9JECUW3/5a-%2BMashnee%2BPeace.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Recent Works Mashnee Peace-2018 Mashnee is a beach on a Cape Cod island where I often walk for peace and inspiration. For years I walked the beach, collecting. Moved by the tides and storms, the ribbon formations of fresh white shells, black dried seaweed, and brownish-pink rocks and sand changed with the seasons. I would kayak in the shallows between the larger rocks with their veils of seaweed, fascinated by the colors and textures under the clear shallow water. Tesserae were cut from local beach rocks, cemented to a backer with smooth beach and ocean colored cement. The seaweed is tarnished scouring pad, the vegetation is humidifier filter soaked in green colored cement. The sea is made of mussel shells and many two to three-inch blades of light-blue kyanite. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1621027125829-R6GOPHZIOA4VYYU4XQ0W/8-%2BAkhenaton%2Bvs%2BEinstein.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Recent Works Akhenaton vs Einstein-2018 (named by George) I really wanted to use the gorgeous piece of labradorite and the glass findings I got from the Things we Love shop, and the moss agate from the Stone Store. The slate was from my yard- pieces that broke when we replaced the slate patio. George thought that it looked like the heads of Akhenaton and Einstein having a conversation so I went with that. Labradorite, slate, field stone, moss agate, glass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1621027174421-1OAYP6XA7C5HDVUXQKPY/14-%2525252BLandscapes%2525252Bof%2525252Bthe%2525252BHeart%2525252Bside%2525252B2.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Recent Works Landscapes of the Heart- 2020 Glass (smalti, stained, slag, cullet and my grandmother’s candy dish), porcelain, bloodstone, chrysocollas, New England fieldstone, slate and Marcellus shale. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1621030041803-XJ3MOR89JNAFC6Q5RMGF/14-%252BLandscapes%252Bof%252Bthe%252BHeart%252Bside%252B1.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Recent Works Landscapes of the Heart- 2020 Glass (smalti, stained, slag, cullet and my grandmother’s candy dish), porcelain, bloodstone, chrysocollas, New England fieldstone, slate and Marcellus shale. I had started a second pal tiya 3D heart form for the Heart project in 2019, but didn’t get inspired till Valentine’s Day and I was yearning to make some small glittery red thing. I saw the half-built heart, my grandmother’s red and crystal broken candy dish pieces, and a slice of bloodstone that was shaped like a biological heart. I was off! I created “design-as-I-go” landscapes with arteries as paths through magical forests/fascia, mountains, fields, sunsets and a rough icy ocean. The stand was made by Jean-François Louis with assists from George. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608490450982-LB8SW6FZGN19COUB0QOX/11a-Twilight+heart+side+1.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Recent Works Twilight- a 3D heart- 2019 (rear) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1607889743199-UH7Z1VZ0PR8XXQXJBEKC/11b-+Twilight+heart+side+2.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Recent Works Twilight- a 3D heart- 2019 (front) This heart was created for a NEMS project for Art in the Orchard, a biennial sculpture show at a farm and farm stand in Easthampton, MA. Laurie Frazer had exhibited in it before, and had the concept of building a “Field of Hearts” with many various hearts displayed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608490618763-PMD6FOV1EBX35SO15QT1/11d+Field+of+Hearts+Installation+detail.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Recent Works Field of Hearts Installation with Twilight- a 3D heart- 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608490552800-G088OBVJAOR6ID57D16X/11c-+Field+of+Hearts+Installation.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Recent Works Field of Hearts Installation with Twilight- a 3D heart- 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608490052793-44FBE9OG610SY89UDY80/17a-+Lollypop+Tree.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Recent Works 17.a Lollypop Tree- 2016 This was from a photo I took of a sunrise from the bathroom in George’s house in Mashnee. This piece hangs in that bathroom. George called that tree the “lollypop tree” and he cut it down shortly after I made this mosaic. The tree blocked his telescope from a full view of the sky. I learned this "painterly" style from Laura Rendlin, and use these techniques in other pieces too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1621030116754-KBKWG1BGIMK73P487S1A/16d-Pattern%2BConfluence%2Bfinal.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Recent Works Collaborative Mosaic with Betsy Rodman: Origin and Pattern Confluence- 2020 Made of Japanese porcelain, Briare tiles, stained glass, ceramic, cullet glass, and jasper. I tried to build on the flow of her design, using some of the same materials and design elements. She used a lot of Japanese porcelain, some were long ago gifts from me (though she forgot that’s where they came from!), and I had some too. It took a long time to collect and prepare the tesserae, and weeks of moving things around. I took periodic photos to take a big picture look and ended up changing it many times. By the end I was satisfied that I had made something that continued the confluent design she had started. And she was pleased, too! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1621030202904-7QPHMTOANVJ0F043LOJH/16c-Pattern%2BConfluence%2Bfirst%2Bhalf.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Recent Works Pattern Confluence First half mosaiced by Betsy: Japanese porcelain, Briare tiles, stained glass, ceramic This was a collaborative project of the New England Mosaic Society for an online exhibit. We were to pick a partner and we would each complete the other half of a mosaic the other had started. My co-collaborator, Betsy Rodman, and I each started the same size mosaic and the only other design element we agreed on up front was no grout. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1621214507819-VYXXIIPR3JAXZ69GIGI8/16a-%2BOrigin%2Bfirst%2Bhalf.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Recent Works Origin First half mosaiced by me: Lapis lazuli, jasper, smalti, red dog, porcelain, copper wire, mirror glass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608489824821-QVOBGBMCPRSODEGA266P/16b-Origin+final.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Recent Works Origin First half mosaiced by me: Lapis lazuli, jasper, smalti, red dog, porcelain, copper wire, mirror glass. Final version completed by Betsey Rodman: Lapis lazuli, jasper, smalti, red dog, porcelain, copper wire, stained, mirror and slag glass, marble, fossil, ceramic. I found this to be a challenging yet compelling project. I used materials and techniques I was eager to use like intuitive andamento using rocks and smalti, and color theory. We both felt we learned a lot from this project. By building on the style and design of the other we could stretch ourselves and create something we would not have done alone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1621214446211-J0LYXPG3HZW7V6YN3AK7/2-%2BTheres%2Ba%2BWay%2BOut.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Recent Works There’s a Way Out- 2016 Made during a time of painful transition for me, this complex mosaic has interwoven spiral mazes with multiple possible routes to follow. It is three dimensional and was designed to be traced with fingers, as one would with a classical meditative labyrinth. The paths lead to each other in sections of the mosaic that are dark and sad, or complicated and light filled, and sometimes the path is not clear, or one could get stuck. Just like life. Dragon and damselflies symbolize growth and rebirth to me. Are the dragonflies trapped or have they reached their destination? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1620822434317-JE85GSN3FZSPI39HCDXA/3-%2BOde%2Bto%2Ba%2BDamselfly.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Recent Works Ode to a Damselfly- 2016 This one is also from the dark period when I was trying to find a way out of the negativity around my departure from my 38 year career in community health services. There is a dark gray dragonfly threatening a delicate damselfly caught in a cage. I had all the materials sitting around, including the frame, and it just miraculously flowed together. Ceramic, tempered glass, mirror glass tiles, polymer clay, beads, pewter dragonfly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608489038968-L269TMMQ7WZ3NWLVCYFG/6-+Franky+the+Naughty+Pumpkin+.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Recent Works Frankie the Naughty Pumpkin-2018 This is the first piece I made in my new basement studio in the fall of 2018. It was October and I decided to make a Halloween pumpkin as I experimented with Pal Tiya, a new clay/cement modeling compound. My goal was to make a lovely blingy pumpkin for fall decorating, a replacement for all the Halloween decorating I used to do. This pumpkin wouldn’t cooperate with that vision. It seemed to have a mind of its own, insisting on not letting me do optimal tile placements, and on a goofy face of fused glass pieces. He’s a harmless spirit that makes me roll my eyes and chuckle. Its name, Frankie, was inspired by my mischievous, diminutive, and much-loved Grandpa Frank. (Accepted to the Arlington Arts Council “Superstitious” exhibit in 2019.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608490303787-OZ7FZ5ET6W5RVOZJZS9F/18-+Blue+Wreath.JPG Works 2011-2021 - Recent Works Blue Wreath- 2017 This was inspired by the incredible amount of blue pottery that I had collected and cut into tesserae from plates and bowls. I still have a lot left so may make another one someday. It can’t stay outside in winter because of the poor quality of some of the plates I used as they can’t take fluctuating temperatures and moisture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/2f9952ac-16df-4f82-ba6f-687652719b06/Tree+in+Winter+2017.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Recent Works This is a happy tree festooned with fluffy snow and a pair of ceramic white doves. All of the elements have texture and shape. The base is carved two-inch soft packing foam, covered in green cement and mosaiced with ceramic and glass tesserae and fresh water pearls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/0c93c68c-8fd8-4f72-9fef-715ed0d7dad6/Garden+at+29+Summer.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Recent Works Fantasy Garden- 2018 I wanted this to represent my actual back yard garden in Arlington. The viewed is from the upstairs window, and is in the style of Laura Rendlin. It does a pretty good job of that, but my attempt at the vegetation is pretty primitive. It represents a view from the back upstairs window. This mosaic brings the outdoors to my basement bathroom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608488488054-CGVNGP6SAKJZLSJ0K3HM/1a-+Homage+to+Home.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Recent Works Homage to Home- 2014 A handmade birdhouse (made for the children of Mashnee to decorate, from wood from the demolished club house). It is mosaiced with broken china, dichroic, iridescent and mirror tiles and stone tiles. It is the first piece accepted into a NEMS show which was installed at the Old Schwamb Mill in Arlington. What an eye opener it was to see all the professional mosaics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/4de47d6f-a7c4-47a7-8c2c-50c83b831e9e/1b-+Homage+to+Home+all+sides.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Recent Works Homage to Home- 2014 All four sides. https://www.lindacundiff.net/work/spaceart monthly 0.5 2020-12-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608493657270-4D2OOPUUCLJ2KHDMWF7D/Spaceball+%231.JPG Works 2011-2021 - Space Art 2014 This piece lives with George, outside in summer. It was my first space ball attempt. 10-inch diameter on a ceramic ball I got for $4 at a Mashnee yard sale. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608493661051-D0LF7ZGWZ3VZ0KNIGLF6/Spaceball+%232+Little+Blue+Planet.png Works 2011-2021 - Space Art Spaceball #2- Little Blue Planet 2015- 5-inch diameter on foam/mesh thinset. It lives with my friend and neighbor Sarah Lynch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608493654452-4SP7RBQ2VQPUW25H8AKF/Spaceball+%233+Jupiter+the+gaseous.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Space Art Jupiter the Gaseous- 2016 8-inch diameter, made of all glass slivers. Lives with George the astronomer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608493658130-9S643IBG91R4Y1X436TB/Spaceball+%234+with+Comet.JPG Works 2011-2021 - Space Art Spaceball with Comet- 2017 6-inch diameter; lives with George. This one is the most cosmic; made primarily of mirror and dichroic glass. The background tiles are triangles cut from sheets of a special mirror that ranges in color from light gray to bright blue. It is flecked with gold, and some of the pieces are all gold. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1620342692796-GM9I0MM6BEVR3EZ2UXHZ/Spaceball%25235%2BLittle%2BRed%2BPlanet.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Space Art Little Red Planet- 2017 6-inch diameter, made on a candlepin bowling ball donated by my neighbor Ronnie. It happily lives with me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608493868884-PCIBXOX2NEFGQ8WQDKO8/Screen+Shot+2020-12-20+at+11.50.53+AM.png Works 2011-2021 - Space Art All the Blues- 2018 6 inches, lives with my photographer friend Jean Granick; was a trade for a wonderful photo of a sunflower https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608493653979-Z29P900VKGUFEPLDU2F9/Spaceball+%236b+All+the+Blues.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Space Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608493657323-RMH27GN4TNGV2B1Q6I0T/Spaceball+%236c+All+the+Blues.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Space Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608493657281-2ESZJ0PA3JILNACS77J2/Spaceball+%236d+All+the+Blues.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Space Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608493657671-U60UNB9SFI044OYPK2QC/Spaceballs+%231-4.JPG Works 2011-2021 - Space Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608495421059-FLN6WYUGNA721MZJDE99/9.+The+Arrival.JPG Works 2011-2021 - Space Art The Arrival (named by George)- 2018 There was a shop in the Boston Markep that sells "local" trivets' breadboards etc for tourists. I drooled over the beautiful stone "harvested from New England Farms." I inquired and went to the factory in Lowell, MA and bought $27 worth of sliced fieldstone scrap for $.50/lb. Loved the cut insides, glittery with mica and maybe pyrite. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1620342522363-ZOZDN3KTX2HU43X57OHV/12-%252BM87%252Bthe%252BGalactic%252BSewer%252BOur%252BUltimate%252BDestination.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Space Art M87: The Galactic Sewer, Our Ulyimate Destination (title by George)-2019 This was inspired by the first photo of a black hole that made news headlines in 2019. George made sure I knew that our Galaxy and all our DNA would be sucked into this particular black hole. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1620342581112-T0TEHXM5UEOP1PHVCNYK/4b%2BRiver%2BNebula.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Space Art River Nebula-2017 This was a save after much rework. I was determined to use smalti for the fist time, but knew very little about how to use it or hardly anything about andamento. The first iteration was awful- it was Disney's Cinderella's dress floating in an Alice in Wonderland maisma. I removed most of the center, added a vintage Navaho turquoise necklace my mother had given me decades before and tried to make some andamento sense of the rest. Lesson learned: study up before you start! https://www.lindacundiff.net/work/storiestotell monthly 0.5 2024-08-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/42be6138-ea44-44ac-8a45-76b87aa315ed/IMG_0232.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Stories to Tell Joan’s Wishing Ball I made this garden ball for my oldest and dearest friend Joan for Christmas in 2024 as she was managing serious health issues. I put it in her garden in April, and she only lived a week beyond that. I had helped her rehabilitate her gardens; sadly she did not live to see the bulbs of hope we planted to bloom the next spring. We had regular walking dates so she could recover her strength. Our walks included parks, cemeteries, canvassing my neighborhood for my campaign, and fast walks through Costco and malls when the weather got too bad. I made this piece as a reflection of the paths we took, or didn’t take, over the 44 years of our friendship. When Joan first saw the garden ball she called it her wishing ball and so it is. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1751737221021-IEPGQ98CVISVDKX9C32R/IMG_0228.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Stories to Tell The dichroic textured glass around the center and the flower petals were from a broken purple glass vase a woman named Joy Gentle. She had offered it up on a local free site expressing that she hoped that someone would make a mosaic with it. Joan had an irrepressible love of glittery things and the color purple. Thus, it is made with iridescent and dichroic stained glass, purple and blue mirror glass, and 24k gold smalti. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/0fa30b9d-4707-4866-ba22-77c32006faf6/Sarah+Howarth+and+her+Swansea+House%2C+1876.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Stories to Tell Sarah Howarth and her Swansea House, 1876. See my blog for the family stories about this representation of my great-great-grandparents newly purchased house. This the first representative semi-realistic piece that I have made. it was a challenge, and could not have done it justice without the help of my structural engineer friend Sarah Lynch. It is made mostly of stained glass, and the stone wall is made of stones purchased and donated by a friend. Nana Sarah is made out of porcelain china and a bit of smalti and her hair is Apoxie Sculpt. I used translucent grout, my first attempt to was so easy and so gratifying (though is made a permanent mess on my kitchen counters- it was hard to see to clean up thoroughly! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/a40a2124-68d5-4c4b-8924-9cd8390b3ea7/Peace+Together+Peace+final+2024.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Stories to Tell "Piecing Together Peace" I made this in 2024 for the Society of American Mosaic Artist's 5th annual One Hundred Moments project. I wanted to reflect on the terrible events in Israel and Gaza in 2023. With empathy for both sides, I wanted to dramatically portray the destruction of war and the hope of peace. This piece was made in a 6x6 inch frame, and made of stained glass, glass paint, and a broken Palestinian teapot I had bought years ago from a church group that visited Palestine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/b6786fee-de2b-4cd2-805d-7ce88f5cd675/Guns+Across+America+small+size.jpeg Works 2011-2021 - Stories to Tell This work was inspired by the repeated mass shootings in the United States, culminating in the racist Buffalo and Uvalde massacres in the summer of 2022. The 4th of July Highland Park, Chicago, sniper-style shooting that year was the ultimate inspiration for the American flag design. It has embedded symbols of the instruments of death and the targeted victims, and the potential long-term impact across the country. It is meant to be descriptive, not political. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/cd425540-5d05-492b-a305-a08a51fe6878/Mapscape+of+Cundiff+Family+of+Bedford+VA+1761-1890.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Stories to Tell See my Blog "The Cundiffs of Bedford VA" for a full description. Mexican and Italian Smalti, strata glass, red dog stone, slate, Apoxie Sculpt, Gilders Paste Wax, polymer clay photo transfer, 19th century chain fragment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608489639708-1THGLI3KMKPHVPRZJ8Q4/15-+Dragonflies+Trancend.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Stories to Tell Dragonflies Transcend- 2020 This was created as part of memorial street installation for Karen Edlund who died in 2019. Karen was a colleague of mine since the 1970s, as our public health careers overlapped and I also knew her husband as my amazing divorce lawyer and carpenter, and through the zydeco/swing dancing crowd. Karen and I became friends in the last few years through mosaics, as she was a founding member and exhibit coordinator for the New England Mosaic Society. The memorial was organized by NEMS, and included 30 small mosaics on rocks placed on the street where she lived as she was well-known and loved. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608494969538-GS3MKO7CUACW4HB2LPFM/20e.+Ball+Mountain+Brook.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Stories to Tell Ball Mountain Brook, West Jamaica, Vermont.- 2017 6x6 inches. In my genealogy research, I discovered an 1860 map that identified the house of Alonzo Clough, my Grandma Blanche Cundiff’s father. He lived in a small village on this brook since about 1840 and my grandmother was born there. I’ve visited it twice and determined that this part of the meandering Ball Mountain Brook circled around where their house would have been. I imagined my grandmother playing in this brook in summer during the 1880s. It is now state conservation land and most of the houses are gone. I tried to make a large mosaic of this scene- I tried several substrates, took a course on mosaicing water, and made two samples to get the water right. This was my second sample- I wasn’t super satisfied with it but thought it captured the essence of that scene. It was made of stained, mirror and iridescent glass, wire, stones, daisy millifiori and polymer clay for the birch trees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608494968509-S2VE2EELPLD3EKL9TSOL/20a-+Mother+and+Child+Icon.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Stories to Tell Mother and Child- 2019 My friends at the Stone Store in Falmouth, MA, Kate and Susan have been very generous to me. They gave me five large buckets of slag and cullet glass, they find things I want like the clear agate slice for “the Arrival” and give me a welcome break on prices sometimes. So, when Kate asked if I’d make her a small mosaic that was an icon, I agreed though that kind of representational mosaic was not in my wheelhouse. She suggested the mother and child motif and with help from the internet created this little 4-inch mosaic that they display with a “not for sale” sign on the crystal table in their store. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608494966939-SA1SZU3VL8FNT6YAI5QF/20b-Peering+into+the+Night+Sky.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Stories to Tell Peering into the Night Sky- George’s mailbox- 2020 George’s cape house is on Mashnee Island, a tight knit community. There are mailboxes in two centrally located stands which have been deteriorating for decades. Someone started painting and decorating some, and this inspired me to make a mosaic for George’s. Doing his sailboat would have kept with the themes the others used, but that was pretty complicated so I went with a representation of his telescope dome and the night sky with the Big and Little Dippers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608494968877-D9LSFY6SEEJ4I0QJQUFT/20e-+What+About+Us-+Honoring+Dr.+Roseanna+Means.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Stories to Tell What About Us?- 2019 This was a plaque I made to honor founder Dr. Roseanna Means on the 20th anniversary of Health Care Without Walls, where I was the COO at the time. It illustrates the lyrics of Pink's song “What About Us?”. An inspiring video of the women clients singing and dancing to that song was shown as part of the gala anniversary event. “We are searchlights, we can see in the dark We are rockets, pointed up at the stars We are billions of beautiful hearts And you sold us down the river too far” Roseanna started her non-profit HCWW to provide “concierge-like” health care to homeless women. She is a visionary and completely committed to creating services and policies to improve the lives and the futures of homeless women and their children. It hangs in her office. It is more like a collage than a mosaic, with satisfying creative moments like creating the Boston skyline and using iridized clear glass for the spotlights. The river is of blue lustre glass. It was a surprise that the iridized and lustre glass would photograph as pink, but it works because Pink! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1620127547110-POBWGJGFHPBT4OKPSQWB/13-%2BGarden%2BReflections%2Bside%2B1.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Stories to Tell Garden Reflections- 2020 My entire back yard is a spiral garden, and I enjoy adding unusual features like mirrors and mosaic sculptures to make it seem magical. I started using mirror glass and pool tiles in a geometrical pattern, but three quarters of the way through I got tired of that and added a band of stained-glass flowers modeled on a bouquet I had picked from my garden the prior summer. Fun and instructional, and it does make that corner of the garden sparkle. George designed and installed it so it wouldn’t fall over. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/89e12009-bc56-40dc-8663-f03aa66bb214/Black+Madonna+of+Tindari-Oliveri.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Stories to Tell Black Madonna of Tindari and Oliveri- 2021 This is a work that has a special place in my collection, but not because it's a great mosaic. When George and I stayed at a kind and generous relative's condo in Oliveri, Sicily in 2018, I foraged for mosaic materials on the beach, in the alleys and streets, and on the live volcano Mt. Etna. I laid them out on a board in my studio and for three years contemplated how to use the floor tile scraps, bits of ceramic, sea glass and stone from the beach and the icon of the Black Madonna of Tindari in a coherent mosaic. With encouragement from Bonnie Fitzgerald and Rachel Davies on a BAMM work-along I gave it a go. There was also an upcoming deadline for a NEMS travel related virtual exhibition that motivated me. I finally cobbled this piece together, adding orange gold and blue smalti, travertine for the beach, stained glass for the distant mountains, slag glass for the Tindari mountain, and gilded ceramic pieces for the church. I am not thrilled with it so did not submit it anywhere except here as documentation of a fail! I enjoy it as a memory of that wonderful vacation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/b1df2ca7-7f79-485e-96e0-b07fed7eaf6e/IMG_3294.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Stories to Tell Jewelry Tree- December 2020 Two friends gave me a bunch of pearls and assorted old jewelry in early December. I was compelled to build this 3-D tree and then gifted it to Bev Lewis who didn't want to put up her usual huge tree due to Covid because of the help she needed for that. This made her smile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/84cae351-6711-440c-8e8e-11416c2b417b/IMG_3295.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Stories to Tell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/a8793b20-4d93-419f-a2f8-006f676dafad/IMG_1355+1.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Stories to Tell This is My Only Home- Mosaic Chair Planter- 2018 I created this chair mosaic for “Chairful Where You Sit,” an Arlington, MA, public art benefit June 7, 2019. The proscribed theme was “Sustainability- Flora and Fauna”. I am grateful for this inspiration and the deadline that pushed me to create this mosaic. I continued to fiddle with it for a year as I did not have time to complete it as it deserved before the day of the event. This chair planter is an impressionistic fantasy-ish creation of a Northeast suburban ecosystem using mostly upcycled materials. The name was taken from Dave Carter’s song “Gentle Arms of Eden”, a joyful song offering a catchy ode to evolution and the natural world. Many of Dave’s songs celebrated animals- the raven and the coyotes are a nod to Dave. It won three awards for this community event (best adherence to theme, from Arlington Dog group for honoring animals, and People’s Choice). This was my mosaic career highlight so far! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1620397716479-HED34VIEHW6ECVCEEDMP/20c-%2BIris%2BTable.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Stories to Tell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608494968684-G2NEVFVJJTMOJ5UOB076/20c-+Iris+Table+closeup+of+top.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Stories to Tell Blue Magic Iris table- 2020 (Chairful Where You Sit) In 2020 the chair theme for this fundraiser was broadened to include small pieces of furniture. I had a little plant table I had found at the Bourne Dump Swap Shop and fixed it up, including new feet made with Apoxie Sculpt. Since the theme that year was “hope,” I decided to mosaic irises which mean hope in the language of flowers. It is transparent glass on mirror, the first time I had done anything like this. It sold as an auction item raising one of the highest amounts - I was astounded someone paid $275 for it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1629039173671-GZRPZRLX1VEURNSTWUPB/Chair%2BSide%2BView.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Stories to Tell I make mosaic art that reflects my loves: and one of these is gardening for beauty, food and pollinators. 2021's Chairful Where You Sit theme was “Nurture Nature” was a perfect fit for me. This throne-like chair was discovered by a friend on the Facebook page “Everything is Free Arlington”- when she couldn’t use it she gave it to me for Chairful. It had led a long life and had been painted and reupholstered many times. Its back panel was perfect for a garden mosaic. This friend won the chair in the auction, so its found a good home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608494967675-B19Q0QL5PK9S1NL41HGA/20d-+Turquoise+Maze+Pendant.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Stories to Tell Turquoise Maze Pendant. Turquoise cabochons, fused and stained glass, beads. My favorite. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608494967759-DBH2EQ2Q6SDSDK0YFS39/20d-+Moon+Pemdant.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Stories to Tell Moon Pendant. Fresh water pearl, agate, bloodstone mountains and a kyanite sea. I wear it often. https://www.lindacundiff.net/work/earlywork monthly 0.5 2021-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608491495781-FC0TF7LQIQ0V7RRP3MCA/1-+Garden+Ball-+my+first+mosaic%21.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Early work Garden Ball - 2010 This garden ball was the first mosaic I made! It was at a workshop in 2010 at the newly opened Mosaic Oasis, a new studio in Arlington. Betsy Rodman, my colleague and friend from work and the local music and dancing community, left nursing to become a mosaic artist. She and Suzanne made balls from styrofoam, mesh and thinset, and laid out a bunch of tiles and mirror pieces. Following my usual inclinations, I made a loose blue spiral around the sphere. It kept losing pieces that I have stopped replacing, but it still stands in the center of my garden. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608491492715-3TM2WC5VFPU2KULM27CU/2-+Mosaic+Ball+and+Birdbath.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Early work Birdbath- 2012-2013 I made this birdbath in 2012-2013 on a large terracotta planter dish with thinset (cement) in 2012ish. It held together for a couple years, then the tiles kept coming off. I was still using coated mirror tiles, which lost their backing. About 2015 it got ridiculous so I pulled off and replaced most of the tiles. I was still in the “learn by doing and failing” stage so this time was worse- I finally dumped it in the trash about 2016. Now I’m using purchased bird baths, un-mosaiced. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608491500915-8HOQVBHL7A7AAG7XCE72/4-+Pink+Mirror+frame.JPG Works 2011-2021 - Early work Mirror with Pink Frame - 2012 This was a gift for my sister, who loves pink. The flowered ceramic is from a small candy dish from our Grandma Cundiff who died when I was five and Debbie not born yet. It was a fixture when we were kids. It crumbled at the small handles so I was happy to use it for this project. The other materials I would never use now as I didn’t know any better then: cheap mirror and glitter tiles and some stained-glass and vitreous tiles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1621214966176-3ZRELLC3EQL99IANYDSW/5-%2BWells%2BBeach%2BJupiter%2Bwith%2BMoon.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Early work “Two Moons” at Wells Maine-2013 Two of my kids, Michael and A. Rose and their partners spent a weekend with me at a motel on the beachfront at Wells Maine. The internet was proclaiming two moons but it was really Jupiter. I collected all the stuff for this one that weekend, except the blue broken bottle glass. I put it together at another workshop at Mosaic Oasis for using found objects. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608491495631-YZEVAZ7QVBSKSPGR42IK/3-+Beach+Pebble+Trivet+2012.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Early work Beach Pebble Trivet- 2013 Another example of trying something before I knew what I was doing. I had been collecting colored pebbles on the Mashnee Beach since I started spending regular time there in 2012. Soon after that a mosaic event was in nearby Falmouth, and I eagerly listened to Rachel Sager do a fascinating presentation on using foraged rocks in mosaics. It was the first I heard of a hammer and hardy (though it was seven years later before I owned and could use them). Later that summer I attempted to mosaic my pebbles on a circle of plywood. I had made a couple small samples first, and luckily determined that grout would not work as it turned the stones black! I then used stone sealer and thinset to apply the stones, which looked messy but OK. Unfortunately, the stones kept falling off! Either I used poor quality thinset, or didn’t prep the plywood adequately. It went into the trash a couple years later. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1608491501084-0ZMUQOSLT26JMOSMMPK4/6-+2014-07-24+Tempered+glass+collage+in+homage+to+my+parents.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Early work Tempered Glass Collage in Homage to My Parents- 2014. I made this at a workshop at Mosaic Oasis shortly after my mother died. I didn’t have much of her jewelry at the time but made do with what I had. The morning after she died, I woke up quite early and for some reason George had not lowered the blinds. First thing I saw was a star, putting me in mind of the song “Bright Morning Stars” which I sang and meditated on as I processed losing the final parent. The photos are fading now and I have to decide soon whether to replace them. I think it was more a processing grief kind of art than a real mosaic, but these also have their place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd112a57c618039444cc03b/1621214926955-50EXW6OY6T7C5551GH2E/7-%2BGeorge%2Bat%2BMashee-%2BMontage.jpg Works 2011-2021 - Early work George and Me Montage- 2015 I made this as part of yet another workshop at Mosaic Oasis where I learned about polymer clay, Apoxie Sculpt, and all manner of glittery stuff to enhance tesserae we made. It was so fun. I figured out how to do photo transfer onto the clay from my ink jet printer and used these photos and framed them with beads. Every technique Amy Marks taught us is in this piece. I’ve since used the polymer clay a little and Apoxie Sculpt a lot, and love Rub N’Buff for a lot of uses!