Image from Homes & Antiques tabloid, February 2009. I stir up the be employed of artist Cleo Mussi, who takes pieces of defeated ceramic and re-purposes them in mosaic sculptures and figurines. She has a wonderful wink to aver to the slapstick and a merest quirky quick-wittedness of witticisms.
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