Eyes are the mirror of the soul. The artworks in this series of Tessera's are made with small tiles cut from vintage children's book covers.
Each tile is a 1:1 digital version of a real piece of book cover previously used in one of my handmade mosaics.
For more than a decade, I have been digitising and archiving these small tiles in a database that has now grown to over 75,000 'pixels'.
In this way, each tile in a digital Tessera artwork is inextricably linked to a unique piece of book cover located in a handmade artwork somewhere in the world.
From his studio in the forests of Appélbergen, south of the city of Groningen, Tessera creates enchanting works of art from tiny tiles cut from recycled covers of old children's books. Each work contains up to several thousand tiny tiles, carefully arranged in colorful compositions, creating.. Read more…