We Do Not Go Out For A Drive,

due to the current crisis like we used to do,

 but on the few times we do go shopping I am amazed at the number of potholes there are in the roads, a fact that Chicago-based Jim Bachor noticed in his neighborhood, Jim’s career as a pothole artist began with a trip to the ancient city of Pompeii, in Italy, where he learned just how durable mosaics really were. The tour guide pointed at a 2,000-year-old artwork and said that although it had been set in mortar, the marble and glass pieces had not faded, photographs © Jim Bachor,

 a few months later he was in Italy learning the secrets of ancient mosaic art, He pursued it as a hobby for a few years, but then he started doing commission works and in May of 2013 he got the idea of applying his skill to fixing a pesky pothole in his neighborhood,

 “Flashback to May of 2013, the potholes were really bad in my area of Chicago,” Bachor said in an interview with The Chicago Ambassador. “There was one in front of our house that was a stubborn one that refused to stay fixed. The city would put asphalt in it and it would pop back out. It just dawned on me over time that I had this passion for this art form that is so durable and permanent, and I had this hole in front of my house that refused to stay fixed. So, what I did was I created a custom piece of art for that pothole.”

 “It’s a two-step process,” Jim said about filling potholes with mosaics. “The first step takes about an hour-and-a -half to install it, to put the art in. Then I protect it with traffic cones or maybe a tarp depending on the weather. Then I come back 8-10 hours later once the concrete is hard to do a final scrub with metal brushes and take photos of it to document it because that’s the best it’s ever going to look. I can’t do it any faster than that.”

and what is the official view of his road repairing program? the Chicago artist said that his only indirect contact with city officials was when the Chicago Tribune did an article on him and called the city to get their take. They said that they appreciated the spirit of his project, but that he should leave plugging potholes to professionals. That was about it. Police have been cool with his pothole mosaics too, and some even congratulated him on his art,

and here is the 'How To', video if you fancy having a go yourself, to fix that annoying pothole that the council will not spend money on and repair, just do not get run over whilst you are doing it!