RIP Sharon von Senden

[Uncle John]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYUgvN7e1Ek&t=11s

The thing about a mosaic piece of art is that it’s many things that make up the entire work.

“What I like about it is it’s not plain and it’s always casting light in different ways,” Jeff Lockheed, owner of Venice Café, said. “I think it’s just magnificent.”

At Venice Café in Benton Park, the work of mosaic artist Sharon von Senden is everywhere, from the floor to the ceiling. Von Senden died Sunday at the age of 83.

“It’s like a Lay potato chip; you get started and you can’t stop,” von Senden said in 1996. “I’ll never get any place with this. I’ll never be a famous person. But when I’m not here anymore, somebody will have this, and it will be proof that I was alive.”