It really was the movie Scarface.
To make a huge ceramic work you have to have a giant kiln, you have to have craftsmen who will take on some crazy project like this without the whole thing exploding in their kiln.
In her works of enamel paint on mirror, such as her portraits of elderly women, the viewer is forced to examine their own reflection as they consider the fantasy before them—a fantasy that teeters on the brink of collapse.