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that could be created using only natural pebbles". Botica has been involved in many private, and public commissions, he has created what is described in the specialist publication Mosaic Art Now, one of the world's top 100 contemporary mosaic works. Botica's ‘Tree of Life’ was commissioned by the North Shore City
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