Prop: Visuals of Mosaic, Stone Altars, Basalt Stones, Fitted Stones, Pearls, Coal Formed Rough Diamonds

Unlike a quilt, formed from unique but uniform patches that have been previously storied and designed, a mosaic uses natural stones, each differently shaped and of different sizes and edges each with a fossilized backstory, and fits them together into one communal living story. Their design evokes a communal memory.

For early Jewish people, the art of mosaic was a way to remember biblical stories and to embed them into collective memory.* Stones were vital to both art and worship in biblical times, and we find a multitude of references to stones and rocks in the scripture stories, particularly with reference to building altars. Stones were thought to be conduits between God and human…