Connections  by Hester Heuff, 2023.  Relief Tile Mosaic. 70x35cm. Location: Wicklow town, Castle street, Ireland.

This is a public art piece attached to a low wall in Wicklow town, Ireland. Individual handmade tiles are press moulded using 4 different types of earthenware or stoneware clays, decorated with blue, green, yellow or black colours or left undecorated and then fired to cone 2 or 6. Then assembled into a relief tile mosaic.

The site for this piece is a beauty spot, a low council wall overlooking the river, the harbour and the sea, along the edge of a much used footpath. The 3 main figurative elements of each tile fit closely into each other, symbolising the closely knit interconnectedness of the natural world. Moreover this is further emphasised by the unique location of the work. The right hand side of the panel is angular in a stepswise way reflexting the angles of the harbour walls and piers of the view.