The Ruins Boots
In love with Pal Tiya Premium, best sculpture material and mosaic substrate" - Helga Maribel Sanchez
From The Ruins Project Website:
Telling Forgotten Stories"The Ruins Project is a long-term collaborative mosaic art installation amidst the ruins of a former coal mine in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Located on the Great Allegheny Passage, this outdoor mosaic museum attracts artists, students, and travelers from all over the world. The walls and rooms of The Ruins represent the rebirth of abandoned American coal country into a spiritual and artistic pilgrimage and destination for adventure seekers and lovers of art and history."
Helga Maribel Sanchez created these beautiful mosaic pieces for The Ruins Project using Pal Tiya Premium as her substrate..
Telling Forgotten Stories"The Ruins Project is a long-term collaborative mosaic art installation amidst the ruins of a former coal mine in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Located on the Great Allegheny Passage, this outdoor mosaic museum attracts artists, students, and travelers from all over the world. The walls and rooms of The Ruins represent the rebirth of abandoned American coal country into a spiritual and artistic pilgrimage and destination for adventure seekers and lovers of art and history."
Helga Maribel Sanchez created these beautiful mosaic pieces for The Ruins Project using Pal Tiya Premium as her substrate..
Here is the story behind them in her own words:
“THE RUINS BOOTS
A Miner and a Soldier. Parallelism and correlation. Two lives that could finally be the same life.
Every day before the sun rises you have them on, you hug those you love, you walk, you listen to the whistling of the birds, the river, the road. Then your thoughts bloom. Your family, your duty, your mission, the provision that you will find, the song or marching cadence that you will sing today with your companions, friends, brothers. The pride you feel and the sense that you are part of something important, build a country or protect it.
Then you cross the threshold, darkness floods your vision, you feel the weight of your boots, the weight of your helmet, the weight of your pick or your weapon. Your body begins to react, you are on alert. Your senses are sharpened, each step matters, each sound, any smell. The canaries stop singing, your heart stops, your breathing, your thoughts. Your brothers all in silence. The alarms begin, the fire, the shots, the screams, the explosions, everyone runs, all together, all separately, chaos takes over. You cry, you suffer in silence, you question why you come back.
The sun rises again, you hug those you love tighter, you walk, you listen less to the birds, the river, the road. Then your thoughts bloom. Your family, your duty, your mission, the provision that you will find, the song or marching cadence that you will sing today with your companions, friends, brothers. To build a country or protect it. For your children to live a better life, progress. Peak to peak, march to march.
They will never again be a simple number, they will never be forgotten. We are now telling their stories
A Miner a Soldier. Parallelism and correlation. Two lives that could finally be the same life.”
“THE RUINS BOOTS
A Miner and a Soldier. Parallelism and correlation. Two lives that could finally be the same life.
Every day before the sun rises you have them on, you hug those you love, you walk, you listen to the whistling of the birds, the river, the road. Then your thoughts bloom. Your family, your duty, your mission, the provision that you will find, the song or marching cadence that you will sing today with your companions, friends, brothers. The pride you feel and the sense that you are part of something important, build a country or protect it.
Then you cross the threshold, darkness floods your vision, you feel the weight of your boots, the weight of your helmet, the weight of your pick or your weapon. Your body begins to react, you are on alert. Your senses are sharpened, each step matters, each sound, any smell. The canaries stop singing, your heart stops, your breathing, your thoughts. Your brothers all in silence. The alarms begin, the fire, the shots, the screams, the explosions, everyone runs, all together, all separately, chaos takes over. You cry, you suffer in silence, you question why you come back.
The sun rises again, you hug those you love tighter, you walk, you listen less to the birds, the river, the road. Then your thoughts bloom. Your family, your duty, your mission, the provision that you will find, the song or marching cadence that you will sing today with your companions, friends, brothers. To build a country or protect it. For your children to live a better life, progress. Peak to peak, march to march.
They will never again be a simple number, they will never be forgotten. We are now telling their stories
A Miner a Soldier. Parallelism and correlation. Two lives that could finally be the same life.”
WOW...
To hear the story makes these gorgeous mosaic sculptures even more mesmerizing.
Helga told us that she is in love with Pal Tiya Premium & we are so happy to hear this. It means the world to us that she chose to work with the medium to make these sculptures and honored to have her as a customer <3
We can't wait to see what she creates next...
Thanks for sharing the story behind the sculpture with us and our community Helga.
To hear the story makes these gorgeous mosaic sculptures even more mesmerizing.
Helga told us that she is in love with Pal Tiya Premium & we are so happy to hear this. It means the world to us that she chose to work with the medium to make these sculptures and honored to have her as a customer <3
We can't wait to see what she creates next...
Thanks for sharing the story behind the sculpture with us and our community Helga.