“POLLINATION!” SCULPTURES AND MOSAIC MURAL

“Pollination!” Mural
2022
7’ x 40’
smalti glass tile
City of Brea, California

The mosaic was fabricated and installed with Mosaika Art and Design Studios.

The city of Brea, California commissioned this mural for the new Avalon Bay residential apartments. The smalti mosaic piece is a landscape depicting the vibrant exotic and native plants found in southern California.

The mosaic wall, 7’ x 40’, depicts oversized poppies, lupines, and other native flowers. The mural features fully open flowers, buds and the beginning of seedpods. It is about abundance, fecundity, and reverence for nature. The three sculptures sited near the mural are part of the same vision, echoing the bright colors and organic forms, referencing the internal parts of the flowers and seedpods featured in the mural. The botanical forms are a playful visual anchor for the gathering places along Birch street.

“Pollination!” Sculptures
2022
Blue - 25’ x 5’ x 5’
Red - 23’ x 6’ x 6’
Yellow - 16’ x 5’ x 5’

Steel, architectural foam, archival paint.

City of Brea, California.