Mosaic - "Greetings" Bus Station - Balti

The 1972 mosaic "Greeting" by Ivan Zagoretski is mounted on a freestanding concrete slab in front of the Bălți bus station. A stylized sun with layered concentric rings occupies the upper left, partially eclipsed by a sweeping crescent-like moon, with stars decorating the bottom right. Two oversized flowers with petals and simplified stems rise from the bottom of the panel. The design uses tesserae in shades of yellow, white, blue, green and red, outlined in black against a neutral background. The tiles are set into contoured cement channels that give the mosaic a slight relief. The uniformity and tightness of the pieces suggest factory-fabricated components, which are typical of 1970s decorative panels as the government sought to mass produce mosaics to overcome the blandness of the earlier panel housing. The mosaic is largely intact, with some mosaics having fallen from the stems of the left flower. Th concrete base is visibly stained and weathered.