{"id":643,"date":"2015-02-27T15:47:54","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T20:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/?p=643"},"modified":"2025-04-28T11:31:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T15:31:23","slug":"mosaics-plateful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/mosaics-plateful\/","title":{"rendered":"Mosaics By The Plateful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"link-plateful\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-649\" src=\"https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MH_050414_05_72dpi-930x564.jpg\" alt=\"Molly Hatch's Ceramic Saucer Mosaic\" width=\"600\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MH_050414_05_72dpi-930x564.jpg 930w, https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MH_050414_05_72dpi-930x564-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MH_050414_05_72dpi-930x564-624x378.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/ajax.googleapis.com\/ajax\/libs\/jquery\/3.2.1\/jquery.min.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<script>\nvar link = '[insert_php]echo get_page_link(); [\/insert_php]';\nvar listItems = $('#link-plateful');\nvar loc = window.location.href;\nvar url = loc.split(\"\/\");\nvar lastPart = url[url.length - 2];\nvar page = url[url.length - 3];\nif (lastPart == 'blog'|| ((page == 'page') && (lastPart == parseInt(lastPart, 10)))) {\n  listItems.attr('href', link);\n} else {\n  listItems.each(function(index, as) {\n    as.href = as.getElementsByTagName(\"img\")[0].src;\n  });\n}\n<\/script><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When most people hear the word &#8220;mosaics,&#8221; they think of ceramic and glass shards pieced together to construct a larger work of art. Note that I said &#8220;shards&#8221; of glass and ceramic. I recently came across an artist whose work turns this mosaic concept on its head. Massachusetts artist <a title=\"Molly Hatch - Ceramicist\" href=\"http:\/\/mollyhatchstudio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Molly Hatch<\/a> creates sprawling, loosely tiled mosaics using handmade painted saucers and dishes.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Hatch doesn&#8217;t need to break up her medium, in fact this is exactly what makes her work\u00a0so fascinating. Each project is unique in that sometimes all saucers are of the same size, creating a grid. Other times, the saucers are a variety of sizes, creating a speckled, dissipating effect. What I enjoy most is the space between the saucers. It lets the viewer&#8217;s imagination take hold of the experience, filling in the blanks to create the full image.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MH_06_72dpi-e1359227522579.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MH_06_72dpi-e1359227522579.jpg\" alt=\"An example of Molly Hatch's Ceramic Saucer Mosaics\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MH_06_72dpi-e1359227522579.jpg 586w, https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MH_06_72dpi-e1359227522579-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MH_06_72dpi-e1359227522579-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MH_01_-e1364428776288.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-653\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MH_01_-e1364428776288.jpg\" alt=\"Another look at one of Molly Hatch's Ceramic Saucer Mosaics\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MH_01_-e1364428776288.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MH_01_-e1364428776288-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MH_01_-e1364428776288-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MH_05_72dpi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-646\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MH_05_72dpi.jpg\" alt=\"A closer look at Molly Hatch's Ceramic Saucer Mosaics\" width=\"600\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MH_05_72dpi.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MH_05_72dpi-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MH_05_72dpi-624x998.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MH_03_72dpi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-654\" src=\"\/\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MH_03_72dpi.jpg\" alt=\"A close-up of one of the plates within a Molly Hatch Ceramic Saucer Mosaic\" width=\"600\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MH_03_72dpi.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MH_03_72dpi-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MH_03_72dpi-624x998.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photos: <a title=\"Hand-painted Ceramic Plate Installations by Molly Hatch | Colossal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2015\/02\/hand-painted-ceramic-plate-installations-by-molly-hatch\/\" target=\"_blank\">Colossal<\/a>, <a title=\"Molly Hatch - Ceramicist\" href=\"http:\/\/mollyhatchstudio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Molly Hatch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,5,121,7],"tags":[119,120,245,122,250,9],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-fine-art","category-molly-hatch","category-mosaics","tag-ceramic-mosaics","tag-ceramics","tag-fine-art","tag-handmade","tag-molly-hatch","tag-mosaics-2"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - 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