Video: Precious planet: 260-carat mosaic by Chris Chamberlain
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
British artist Chris Chamberlain assembled a mosaic in the form of a kind of geographical map of several hundred thousand tiny details. Among them are not only numerous pieces of glass, but also more than a thousand precious stones with a total value of 260 carats.
In particular, Chamberlain had to cut out about 300 thousand tiny fragments from glass - mostly square, but sometimes of a more complex shape - and also install about 6900 LEDs for illumination around the entire perimeter of the "card". And that's not counting the 1, 238 gems.
A British citizen with Chinese roots, Chamberlain has every reason to call himself a "citizen of the world." He harbors patriotic feelings not for any particular country, but for the entire planet at once. The precious mosaic of the Earth is the perfect way to express them; it's not for nothing that it's called Jewel of the Universe.
Chamberlain worked on the project for 27 months. The artist, clearly marked by a penchant for precision in numbers, claims to have taken 3,500 hours to complete. To emphasize his love for each of the corners of his native planet, Chamberlain did not stint on jewelry: if you break the mosaic into its constituent components, you will find amethysts, aquamarines, citrines, diamonds, emeralds, cordierites, peridots, rubies, sapphires, tanzanites, topazes and zircons. However, Chamberlain gave each of his expensive components its own strictly defined meaning. For example, emeralds on the map indicate the spiritual centers of mankind - for example, Jerusalem and Mecca, and the blotches of turquoise indicate the direction of the flow of the great rivers - the Nile, Mississippi, Ganges. Zircon is located at the points where the largest cities of the planet "grow" - New York, London, Tokyo.
The greatness of the planet we live on never ceases to excite the minds of artists and photographers. Employees National Geographic capture on the film of beauty more and more remote corners of nature; Many artists, like Yana Arthus-Bertrand … Chris Chamberlain is pursuing the same goal. His idea may seem somewhat pretentious, but the artist is quite sincere in his desire for "the uniqueness and beauty of the Earth." According to Chamberlain, the mosaic Jewel of the universe - only the first in a series of several works on the same topic.
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