Mosaic Art by Mary Engel

We have a soft spot for folk art, which may be why we responded so well to the work of Mary Engel. Mary will be included in an upcoming book by Garth Johnson of ExtremeCraft.com, which will feature 1,000 ideas for Creative Reuse, we seriously can't wait for this book. In the meantime, we're making due with perusing ExtremeCraft in hopes for a taste of what will be in the book. Mary Engel is definitely one of our favorites so far.

Mary Engel is an Athens, Georgia based artists who uses little porcelain figurines to make amazing mosaic sculptures most of which are inspired by her two dogs and the tradition of African grave markers and old Southern "Memory Jars". (We actually have our own DIY art project inspired by Memory Jars that we hope to share soon!)

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Comments (17)

I 'd love to buy a piece by Judy Onofrio. Check out her site.

dont know why, but it creeps me out.

Creeps me out, too. Looks like a collection of old chewing gum scraped off the bottom of school desks.

It looks like some sort of skin disease, especially that first one. Ewwww, I just can't appreciate it.

I've seen these in person, and they are quite cool.

It does sort of make my skin crawl for some reason.

I love it for some reason - but that is what makes art, art!

I agree with Abby-Sue... makes me alt left.

Oneformybaby--you beat me to it..it creeps me out too.

It reminds me of ticky tacky art cars I see all over Santa Cruz with Kewpie doll figures glued onto them.

I want to like it but, I just ate and it's hard to keep it down when I look at the first one. It reminds me of "Pizza the Hut" from Spaceballs. I'm sorry but, I couldn't keep it to myself.