1-2-3 Mississippi Mosaics at MSP Airport

Installed at the MSP International Airport, Delta Gates C4-6.  Hundreds of thousands of vitreous glass tiles.  Special thanks to crew Austin Flom, Mary Lee Leikas, Michelle Roise, Kathy Thiel, Anni Kandel, Thea Schermerhorn, Bobbi Solien, and Cathi Tiedeman; and to installers Leslie Bentley and Joyce.

"One Missippi"
Lake Itasca Headwaters, MN
9.5' x 11'

"Two Mississippi"
St. Anthony Falls, MN
9.5' x 10.5'

"Three Mississippippi"
St. Paul, MN
9.5' x 10.5'

MMM #3: SIZE MATTERS

All along I've known these were big walls -- approximately 11 wide by 10 tall -- but it never hit me HOW BIG until I put up one of the templates I had printed. Yikes!  That's going to be a lot o' tiles.....

I'm 5'3"  and the full height isn't shown, but you get the idea.  Going to do this wall first, even though it is the 3rd one, because it seemed to be the...  not easiest per se, but the one with large simple areas.  Ha!  Was I ever wrong -- seems to be easier to be complex than simple. 

** These posts are current, but the activities described are from the past 2 months;  just now getting around to blog.

Baby Got Clothes!

Never could figure out the placement of photos on this thing..... tried to do a "before and after" but instead it has come out "after and before."

Cowboy Vest and Guitar

Librarian or Professor?