Written in 2007, this writer and naturalist from Utah explains how to study the mosaics of
Byzantium, how to create these mosaics with tiles, tessalo, glass breaking up the pieces into
small geometric shapes.
The jacket cover of the book suggests it is about Rwanda....but the second chapter is about
Ms. Williams work in her native state, Utah where she is studying and working on the
lifestyles of the prairie dogs...their community, their posture, how they interact with each other.
And finally, how and why they are slaughtered for use as fur and food and pay for the
furriers and trappers who capture and kill them. What I ask does this have to do with mosaics
and Rwanda....
The second half of the book is about Rwanda...the genocide is counter valed with how today
after 1994...their land is reconstructing its houses, its business and trade with the main trade
winds from where they live...their produce, their lifestyles since...
It is a very close look at the nation of Rwanda, mostly about its peoples....their houses and
what they have to eat at dinner, how they earn the salary to pay for their dinner table of food...
their schools that are rapidly rebuilding.
An inspiring book...I sat for a very long time creating a mosaic on a second hand tray found
at the thrift shop that is run by The Home for Little Wanderers...am still creating my
small tray about the world in Africa..in Rwanda...
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