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SUMMARY:Mosaic Ride
CONTACT:whitney
DESCRIPTION:Mosaic is an ancient artform made up of placing tiny pieces 
 into a mortar on a surface and sealing them together to create a pleasing 
 image. These fragments\, called tesserae\, can be made of tile\, glass\, 
 stone\, discarded shards of pottery - WHATEVER the maker has on hand. This
  art form lends itself well both to giant public murals and intimate\, 
 decorative arts. Production is simply a matter of laying varying colours 
 and shapes next to each other over and over till they come to represent a 
 pattern or a picture\, a whole. As such\, mosaic art lends itself 
 beautifully to metaphor: WE are all the tiny\, varied\, broken pieces it 
 takes to come together and build a COMMUNITY. Our experiences (good and 
 bad!) are the wild\, sparkling\, tesserae it takes to pattern a life. When
  we pick up the fragmented chunks of our broken hearts and lay them next 
 to the joys and the dramas\, we curate something entirely new\; everyday 
 we are making Art simply by choosing to live. \n\nJoin me on a ten-ish 
 mile tour to appreciate some of the fanciful tile art sprinkled around 
 Portland. We’ll also gander at some fine examples of Mosaic’s translucent 
 cousin\, Stained Glass. AND THEN join TOGETHER as we attempt to create a 
 collaborative mosaic of our own at the end spot! This is going to work 
 exactly as well as it can - in much the same way that the community of 
 Portland is exactly what we make of it. For this\, I have a simple\, silly
  ask: bring along a colourful ceramic item (or glass! Or stone!). This can
  be a cursed piece of pottery\, or that mug you broke in 2021 and never 
 learned how to kintsugi back together… or something you found in a free 
 pile yesterday and magpied even though you didn’t have a plan for it quite
  yet. I'll bring a board\, some tools\, cement\, and a vague plan. If it 
 works\, I'll install this work at a later date at a friend's property on a
  bikeway\, and Future You can bike by and point out to your friends how 
 this one time\, on this one ride\, you made Art with a bunch of (former) 
 strangers and you should probably do that more often…\nmeet at 3:30\, ride
  at 4\nEnds at Laurelhurst Park\nhttps://shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-
 24625
LOCATION:Kennedy School Patio\n5736 NE 33rd Ave\, Portland\, OR 
 97211\nthere's TONS of great mosaic art just inside the door if you pop in
  for a wander while waiting for other\, less punctual\, cyclists to gather
  outside
STATUS:CONFIRMED
DTSTART:20260815T223000Z
DTEND:20260816T013000Z
CREATED:20260717T120906Z
DTSTAMP:20260717T120906Z
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URL:https://shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-24625
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