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Glass Mosaic by Jamelie Hassan in Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery Silent Auction

11/12/2020

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1.618, Glass tile mosaic on plywood, 2020
Jamelie Hassan has contributed a recent glass tile mosaic, "1.618", to Future Vison silent auction for the KWAG. Visit the auction page here. Online bidding deadline began Nov. 2 and ends on December 11, 2020 at noon.

Artist statement
I have had a lifelong interest in the art of mosaics and have done research on this ancient art in museum collections in France, Italy, Spain, Portugual, North Africa and throughout the Middle East. Technically, I began to learn this process through a workshop lead by Indigenous artist Brenda Collins to create a collaborative mosaic tile work of a Medicine Wheel with my family. Previously, I had attended a wampum workshop with Brenda and she had added mosaic tile workshops to her skills.

Several of my first glass mosaic tile artworks incorporated common expressions in Arabic Kufic-style script. I then moved to mathematical concepts as a means to reference our relationship in Western culture to Arabic number and mathematical systems. The origin of the Fibonaccio number system and the golden mean 1.618 is from Arabic - Indian concepts of mathematics yet this origin has been erased or absent from common knowledge. Scholars from North Africa and the Middle East such as al- Khwarizmi whose name was given to the term algorithm (ca. 825 C.E.) influenced Fiboncci but the 13 th century mathematician from Pisa is the individual that is identified with this beautiful and revolutionary concept and its relationship to nature.

 

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12/8/2022 08:09:34 am

Enjoyed reading the article above , really explains everything in detail, the article is very interesting and effective. Thank you and good luck in the upcoming articles

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Storyboard Artist New York link
12/8/2022 08:45:30 am

I began to learn this process through a workshop lead by Indigenous artist Brenda Collins to create a collaborative mosaic tile work of a Medicine Wheel with my family. Thank you, amazing post!

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Jamelie Hassan is a visual artist and activist based in London, Ontario. Since the 1970's, she has exhibited widely in Canada and internationally. She is also active as a lecturer, writer and independent curator and has travelled and worked globally.

​In 
2001 she received a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in recognition of her artistic achievement. Her activism, curatorial work and contributions to the artist-run centre movement in Canada were also mentioned by the jury in their statement.

​London, Ontario is on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Attawandaron and Huron-Wendat peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Wampum and other treaties.

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