Reflection - Mosaic

I made my mosaic on the symbol of the triquetra.  To the left is a picture of one.  The word "triquetra" is Latin and means "three-cornered".  It was the original word for "triangle".  It has been used to represent the unity of things that have three parts:  maiden, mother, crone; past present future; the combination of the physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of the soul; the Holy Trinity.  The one on my mosaic represents the Holy Trinity - the Son, the Father, and the Holy Spirit.  A picture of it is attached below: 

As you can see, there is yellow and orange border around a green background with a silver-and-blue triquetra on the inside.  The orange represents fire, the green is earth, the silver symbolizes air, and the blue shows water.  The triquetra represents the Holy Trinity and how God is three beings, but really just one God.  He is all-knowing everywhere on Earth and in Heaven.

I picked this symbol because I thought it looked very cool and was a much more interesting version of a triangle.  Also, I picked it because I thought I would be able to be a lot more creative in the color scheme.  For example, if I were doing an animal such as dove, I would have to make sure the dove was white; whereas the triquetra can be any color.

This project was not necessarily very hard - it was just tedious.  Especially when you are making a border or a background with one color, you are basically just cutting pieces of paper up and gluing them on a paper.  It can get very boring to do.  If I were an ancient mosaic-maker, I would not be a happy camper.  Making a real mosaic must be ten times harder than making one on paper.  You would first have to cut all the stone and glass up, which would take a lot longer than it does to cut paper.  You then have to spread plaster over the area you want to make your mosaic.  After that, you have to quickly place all the bits of stone and glass into the plaster before it dries.  The artist must be under so much pressure when they are making a mosaic, because of the fact that if they make a mistake, they lose valuable time for placing the rest of the tiles in the drying plaster.  The job would also be very tedious - especially because the areas of wall, floor, and ceiling you would be constructing the mosaic on would be so much larger than the little piece of paper I made my mosaic on.  It would take months, maybe years, to get a huge mosaic done.