How did a journey to study the art of making Byzantine mosaics in Ravenna lead you to Rwanda?
The whole journey really began in Maine in the context of September 11th, when I chose to speak out. I found myself saying that there are many forms of terrorism, and environmental degradation is one of those. In a New York Times op-ed piece I had written about how secretive the energy policy in Washington is with Dick Cheney and his energy task force meeting behind closed doors, but here in Utah their federal oil and gas exploration is an earth-shaking experience you can see and feel. Their 50,000-pound thumper trucks roar across the desert without an environmental impact statement, totally trampling the land. Amidst this, desperate to retrieve a sense of poetry, I went down to the ocean shore in Maine and I asked for one wild word from the ocean to follow. And the word that came back to me was “mosaic.” I thought mosaic was a craft — where you take your grandmother’s broken plates and piece them together into pictures. I realized quickly that mosaic is not a craft, but an art — an ar
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