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My name is Jen and I am a mosaic artist, specializing in pique assiette.                                                       

A pique assiette mosaic is a composition of ceramic, glass, or pottery shards, and/or discarded or disrelated objects, re-arranged into new combinations, and given new purpose or vision.  This approach gives broad range for imagination, and the artist's own creative interpretation.  It can also elicit the humor or surprise which is often associated with pique assiette.

Mosaic:

-a picture or decoration made of small, usually colored, pieces of inlaid stone, glass, etc.

-something resembling such a picture or decoration in composition, especially in being made up of diverse elements.

(dictionary.reference.com)

-in art, a detailed pattern made from many different tiles or pieces.

-something made up of a variety of elements.

-mosaic can be made up of pieces of glass or tile and is often used in furniture, like tables or floors, or decorative windows. Mosaic can also refer to anything that's made up of many various elements to form a single composite. 

(vocabulary-vocabulary.com)

Pique Assiette:

(pr: peek-ah-see-et or pee-kay-ah-see-et)  is a form of art similar to mosaic but specifically uses broken plates and the like arranged in patterns or designs. The name comes from the French pique-assiette, meaning "one who eats from others' plates". Pique assiette is a style of mosaic that incorporates pieces of broken ceramics—plates, dishes, cups, tiles—and other found objects into the design. The appeal and expressiveness of pique assiette lies in the ideas of lateral thinking, humour, recycling, and the significance of the found objects.

This form of art is believed to have been originally introduced by Raymond Edouard Isadore, known as the "father of French pique assiette". He discovered his bits of colored glass and pottery in the fields surrounding his house in Chartres, outside of Paris, and spent his life covering every surface of the inside and outside of the house and his garden area. He supplemented his shards with stuff from auctions, quarries and the public dump. His home is a popular tourist attraction and is known as "Maison Picassiette".  (Wikipedia)

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