Tracing Butterflies on the Wall

Every day the project moves forward. We’re getting very excited!

Next step in the installation process is to transfer the traced butterflies to the cinderblock wall.

We had some great help.

Nice work with that scalpel Mary!

We cut out a portion of the traced outline – just enough to discern the orientation of the butterfly and traced the outline with a Sharpie.

Then we wrote the number on the wall.

A honeycomb of butterfly wings

Each number corresponds to a number on the mosaic butterfly and/or dragonfly.

 

We went to the extra layout step to ensure that the install goes as smoothly as possible.

Once we had everything cut, numbered and traced, we removed the paper. This is the pattern we’ll follow when we mortar the butterflies to the wall.

First butterflies go up on Sunday, June 3rd. Yippee!!

Look What Just Flew Our Way

The butterflies just keep coming! This is such an exciting project. We met our friend (and awesome mosaic artist) Kaye Iverson for coffee and to pick up her two contributions to the project. She made a butterfly – pictured here, and a dragonfly.

Looks like we’re going to have somewhere around one hundred winged creatures to grace the meditation garden wall.

Woo Hoo!

Have you noticed how completely and totally generous artists are?

A huge thank-you to everyone who’s donated time, materials and artwork.

It’s gonna be awesome!