Beautiful mosaics made of broken pieces

So what was supposed to be a day off turned into a full day of work, going to two meetings in Redditch.

This photo was taken in the Kingfisher Shopping Centre and this is just one of the twelve Paolozzi Mosaics commissioned by the Redditch Development Corporation, the Needles Industry Group, and the Arts Council of Great Britain, whose 'Arts in Public Places' scheme assisted the commissioning of works of art throughout the country 'for the benefit of the public at large'. The brief given to Eduardo Paolozzi was that the artwork had to be related to the most significant industry base within Redditch, namely, needles'.
Paolozzi stated that the needle industry theme ran through all twelve panels in the form of:
"a multi-evocative metaphor, floating in some cases against woven material, symbolizing the uses and results of the needle in its widest sense - a vital tool for the uniting of many substances in both a global and metaphysical sense."