Mosaic - Dining hall room of the Sainte-Barbe library, Paris 

Giandomenico Facchina crafted this mosaic for the Sainte-Barbe library in Paris, featuring a cockatoo perched amidst lush foliage. Birds, often symbols of the soul's journey or messengers between realms, find echoes in various cultures. The cockatoo, with its striking crest, might evoke notions of exotic lands and the human quest for knowledge. Consider, for example, how images of birds appear in ancient Egyptian art, representing the human soul. Such motifs resonate across time, each instance colored by the cultural lens through which they are viewed. This mosaic invites us to consider how symbols evolve and persist, reflecting our collective psyche and cultural memory.