My new workshop: A space full of love, history, and good energy
I made my first mosaic crouched on my brother’s old twin bed in his childhood room after he’d gone off to culinary school. My next few mosaics were…
An (im)permanent goodbye to Ottawa
I’ve lived in Ottawa for nearly ten years. I came for work—government, obviously—and am now leaving for work (albeit R’s, not mine). We didn’t think we’d be in…
When life gets crazy, make pet rocks
What happens when you give a mosaicist a bit of leftover thinset, a scrap bin, and rocks that are too big to use whole (and too hard to…
Two sides of the same coin: A mosaic about climate change adaptation and mitigation
There are two sides to the climate action coin: adaptation (dealing with the impacts of climate change) and mitigation (reducing greenhouse gas emissions). While working hard to reduce our…
That’s enough! A mosaic about consumption and climate change
Climate change is fundamentally a consumption problem. This is not some sweeping, hyperbolic statement. Everything we consume—the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the phones in our…
What a difference a year makes: My second foray into the SAMA vortex
My second SAMA conference has come and gone, and wow, what a difference compared to last year. I had a slightly better idea of what to expect and…
The cost of doing business: A mosaic about destruction on the path to fossil fuel combustion
I know I have only just started exploring the solutions side of climate change, yet here I am already going back to the impacts. But I have a good…
For better or worse: A mosaic about tipping points, thresholds, and nonlinear transformations
Until now, my Fiddling While Rome Burns series has focused mostly on the problem. I’ve covered climate science, impacts, and socio-cultural and political phenomena. But what about the…
Complementarity and cross-pollination: Celebrating the day job
Day jobs. It seems that we love to hate them. For years I resented my office job. I wanted nothing more than to quit and make mosaics all…
Travelling feet: Half of my contribution to Rachel Sager’s Ruins Project
This past summer, while on vacation at my family’s cottage, I finally got around to making a contribution to send to Rachel Sager for The Ruins Project. (If…
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