{"id":863,"date":"2009-11-12T14:13:20","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T21:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/?p=863"},"modified":"2025-05-23T14:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T21:43:10","slug":"the-pique-assiette-buddha-shrine-part-5-the-inevitable-but-strangely-perfect-conclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/the-pique-assiette-buddha-shrine-part-5-the-inevitable-but-strangely-perfect-conclusion","title":{"rendered":"The New Pique Assiette Buddha Shrine Part 5 – The Inevitable But Strangely Perfect Conclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Buddha Shrine is finally done. My little Buddha, rescued this summer from the back of a truck full of junk, now sits in splendor, cross legged, quietly contemplating the lotus flower I have bestowed upon him. Will is sure his expression is now one of serenity with just a hint of a smile. All problems have been solved, all has come to it’s inevitable conclusion, all is as it was meant to be.<\/p>\n

Well that’s pretty well how it seems to me now, now that it’s all done. The dishes I thought I needed, I didn’t need. The dishes I had and the decisions I made now all seem right, destined even.<\/p>\n

I suddenly came to a conclusion about the back and just filled the space with green and blue turquoise dishes. Dishes, I might add, that were in my kitchen cupboard all along. Sometimes I use dishes meant for mosaic for a while and I’d totally forgotten they were there to be used.<\/p>\n

\"back,<\/p>\n

The color fit well with the front of the shrine and it also leant a quietness to the design. So another problem solved with no effort.<\/p>\n

The edge was done with the little scraps of gold tile I had left and the skinny little pieces seemed to be the right design solution after all.<\/p>\n

\"side,<\/p>\n

So yesterday,\u00a0Will and I donned our rubber gloves and slathered on the grout. The grout color was somehow fittingly called Green Tea, to which I added water colored with just a bit of Phthalo green paint. I wanted the grout to be more turquoise. Oddly that didn’t work either but the color actually became an almost exact match for the Buddha’s antique finish. Another strangely perfect conclusion. I was actually quite pleased when we finally glued him in place and grouted around him, just how well the grout color fit so well with the Buddha.<\/p>\n

\"<\/p>\n

\"Buddha<\/p>\n

So here it is, all done. Candles lit. Shown here as he is in daylight.
\n\"Buddha<\/p>\n

And then here as he is at night with the glow of the tea lights flickering on his meditation.<\/p>\n

\"Buddha<\/p>\n

Now all I have to do is find a spot for him or a new home where he will be appreciated, where his serene meditation of a lotus flower in front of the tranquil green rippling pond will remind an onlooker to slow a bit and quiet their thoughts. And realize that everything has a way of flowing, just as this little shrine did, to it’s inevitable conclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Buddha Shrine is finally done. My little Buddha, rescued this summer from the back of a truck full of junk, now sits in splendor, cross legged, quietly contemplating the lotus flower I have bestowed upon him. Will is sure his expression is now one of serenity with just a hint of a smile. All Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,1,3],"tags":[378,24,812,416],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","category-musings","category-mosaics","tag-buddha-shrine","tag-pique-assiette","tag-pique-assiette-buddha-shrine-part-5","tag-scraps-of-gold-tile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4731,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions\/4731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}