Going to America

It's time for the American Mosaic Symposium(SAMA), and Helen Bodycomb and I are heading there to take part. I've never been to the States before so I'm pretty keyed up. It's gonna be a blast - Miami, Chicago, San Diego and most probably Tijuana. We've spent 6 months working towards this and are looking forward to extending the network of fellow mosaicists. There's a trip to Gianni Versace's house (I'd imagine lots of classical mosaic with gold), the nouveau work of the hotels, the Chicago school of Mosaic, throw in a bit of Frank Loyld Wright there and last but not least, Niki de Saint Phalle's fantastic monumental sculpture garden in Escondida, California - Queen Califa's Magic Circle. There's something like 300 million people over there and I'm gonna try talk to everyone of them! We will be spending some time with the great mosaicist, George Fishman who has a great website that is worth checking out www.georgefishmanmosaics.com