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Dawn Dalto
Sgrafitto Porcelain Mosaic Mirror
Porcelain, glass
The need to work and create with her hands has been a lifelong driving force for Dawn. As a child, she learned needlework from her grandmothers. This skill later led to working with needle-woven beadwork. When introduced to clay in 2006, Dawn merged the problem solving and attention to detail of these mediums into my work with clay.
This mirror alludes to trees, nature, the evolving circle of our life and those things that we find important or pray to. Each individual tile was carved, fired and then mounted on tile backer board and grouted. It is porcelain. The pattern is carved through black underglaze in a technique called Sgraffito: decoration produced on pottery or ceramic by scratching through a surface of plaster or glazing to reveal a different color underneath.
