Tiles
April 27, 2025

Although, this isn’t an original Toynbee tile — a mystery I’ve always been fascinated and enamored by — this is definitely a linoleum asphalt mosaic in the same construction method if not exactly in spirit. I love the smart limited color palette and tight composition, rough cut and still recognizable. There’s something about the shapes and parallel rectangles that makes me think of jazz, Blue Note record covers and Saul Bass movie posters. It’s familiar and unknown, individual and united. To quote one of the originals, “You must make and glue tiles!! You!!!! As media!”
Midtown, Manhattan.