Life Patterns: Cullecta Cultura By Jill Gussow

Throughout the history of humans, one thing has always stood out. As soon as man was created, art was created. Scientists have discovered cave paintings from cavemen more than ten thousand plus years ago. Ever since we figured we could create objects using mud, we have never stopped. Ten thousand years later and art is one of the most important things we have in the world today. Instead of using mud, we use paint, glass, markers and so on. Some artists work’s stand out more than others, but I will be talking about a few works of art from the local area. The idea of art started ten thousand years ago, and will most likely never end.
“Life Patterns” was created by Jill Gussow in 2009 and is about 450 square feet long. This piece was huge and
The piece was pretty big, and was made up of multiple pieces. This piece takes place along a staircase with little circle tables underneath it for people to eat or talk under. As I was looking at the artwork, I noticed it was split up into six separate pieces. The artwork contains many different colors from reds, blues and greens to oranges, yellows, whites, and blacks. The Jill Gussow used a wide variety of warm and cool colors. I enjoyed that most about this piece. The way they make the random colors come together is very cool. While observing the art, I noticed multiple different types of flowers, a few birds, and a man in the far-right corner. Jill Gussow cut each tile and then at the end they put them all together. Once again Ms.Gussows cutting ability is simply amazing. Her mass amount of detail is unbelievable. The reason I chose to observe “Cullecta Cultura” is it was on the syllabus we had to follow. It was number three on our list of mosaic pieces to look at throughout Rochester. Although the piece used multiple different colors, I did not like the flow of it. It looked like a bunch of random shapes, and lines mushed together into six pieces. All six of the pieces were made from tile that was cut into shapes to make objects. Compared to Life Patterns, and The Hope Wall, this one is my least favorite. The idea of the design came from the different people at the University of Rochester. It helps celebrate