Broken Tile Mosaic of a River Splitting Round an Island

A river of turquoise and blue tile shards splitting around a dark green wooded island with a few orange roof tiles, an ochre hill behind, cream sky.

Prompt

Assemble the image from irregular angular glazed-tile shards with varied sizes, narrow nonrepeating grout, occasional chipped ceramic edges. Resemblance in big shapes only: silhouette, pose, proportions, large patch areas. Below fingertip scale use only tessera and grout; never overlay cracks on a photograph. Glaze and grout texture show everywhere. No photographic detail, crisp strands or glossy eye reflections. Wide 16:9 frame. A river runs from the right edge toward the left and divides around a long wooded island in the centre of the frame, the two channels rejoining at the left. The water is turquoise, blue and white tile shards that flow in the direction of the current, the island is dark green and olive shards with a few orange roof tiles, and a golden brown hill of ochre shards rises behind it under a pale cream sky. Turquoise, deep blue, olive, ochre and cream glazed shards, with narrow dark grout lines. The tiles run to every edge of the frame.
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