Cup #92 (two views)

Curling around the old year and sweeping into the new..the last cup of 2011.

Cup #91 (two views)

What can I say....I turn and turn and am sixty-one today...91/61....it's my Birth Day.

Cup #90

The vitality of the bulbous cup is constrained near it's opening and a torrent is released into it's handle.

Cup #89

Tender sweeping....

Cup #88 (two views)

A delicate strand emerges from the stronger handle vine and moves it's way around it's cup in soft breaks and folds....

(Check out this cup body before sculpting in the previous post)

Cup #87 (in three stages)

Six hours later!... 3 handle vines in lifting harmony....

Three small soft handle vines in the rough...two attached at the top and one at the bottom getting ready for interplay...

The cup bodies of #87, 88, 89, 90 (left to right) perched on a throwing bat. Cup #87 is only 3 1/2 inches tall....an accident in which I lost the top of the cup in throwing and decided to turn it into a small opportunity. Cups #88, 89, and 90 are now wrapped in plastic so they will stay moist until it's their turn for a handle.

Cup #86

A strong handle vine that pulls and grows from its cup in sweeps and twists, then encircles it's seed...

Cup # 85 (two views)

A strong, upright, energetic, and fluid cup. The first cup made upon my return from the summer on Manitoulin Island....

Cup #84 (two views)

Four births bulging in four distinct sections around the uterine-shaped cup, toes curl, the handle finds death's winged portal....a cup for our Mother....

Cup #83

A lively handle emerges from one of the splitting open folds in the base and finds it's way to the becoming of its self...

Cup #82

Art Nouveau?...I think so (again!)...

Cup #81

A round bulbous cup that grows a simple emphatic handle vine....

Cup #80

An embrace that breaks around the cup into gentle bands and loops....

Cup #79

a stout cup that sweeps up in harmony aside it's looping handle....

Cup #78

The handle pulls and draws itself from the cup then finds it's way back....

Cup #77

A well rounded cup nests comfortably in that which has been energetically provided...

Cup #76

The handle grows from the cup then loops and sweeps down to hold the cup up in a claw like base...

Cup #75

The cup leafs open and the handle emerges...again the cup nests in the base and its rounded bottom is visible just below the carved sweep of the base

Cup #74

Celebration...the lively handle enfolds the cup which nests within it and emerges from it. Look closely at the very rounded bottom of the cup that is just visible through the cut-out sweep of the base. (click on the cup to enlarge it and get a better view)

Cup #73

Spring Swirls.....

Cup #72

This cup came off of the potter's wheel with three pulsating ridges (still evident) to mark the visit to my studio of two women friends from my writing group and the reunion of the three of us....it then began to break into more unexpected ridges a few days later, (when it was time to attach the handle and sculpt), during a visit from another writer who plans to do an article on this project...it did become a very energetic and complicated little cup.

Cup #71

Tango....the Dancing Cup....baptism....Gloria.

Cup #70

Offering....

Cup #69 (two views)

The handle roots about the base of the cup then sweeps up and away...I'm thinking spring! (and also its relationship to Cup #44....)

Cup #68

Fluid folds that overlap and entangle, curls, seed.....

Cup #67

Round, curled, contained....this cup reminded me of Cup #22...after a look back, I can see the process of change that shows up in a stronger more sculptural expression of these qualities.

Cup #66

A proud, energetic one...made during a visit from a Round Valley Girl!

Cup #65 (two views)

Art Nouveau?.....I think so!!!!

Cup #64

The handle I "intended" cracked and split at the base of the cup when I attempted to attach it so I turned the remaining stub into a loop. The handle cracked because the clay I used to make the handle lost it's elasticity. The loss of elasticity occurred because (for the first time) I spent 10 hours putting my 400 lbs of aged, elastic, 10 year old clay (it was a little too dry) through a pug mill (the Champion juicer or meat grinder for clay) with some slip to re-moisten it and all that mixing broke up the living connections in the clay and it lost it's elasticity. Panic....then I found some scraps of old elastic, non-pugged clay and started a new handle. The new handle comes from the top of the cup down to an energetic meeting with the loop....the cup seems to be smiling...I am now too......

Oh, and new clay has arrived (luckily unfrozen) from Minnesota...there will be more cups.

Cup #63 (two views)

The handle emerges from the swirl in the base and moves energetically up.... along the way it splits into two living forms...one appears somewhat human and the other one grows its way up and off the cup...

Cup # 62 (before and after)...and after

The Revision...I took off the twist at the end of the handle and repeated the rim's wave...much better now!?

After....A wave moves around the rim and breaks at the handle. The handle swirls up from a solid base then curls and ends in a twist...(I'm not quite satisfied with that little twist on the end of the handle and am thinking about removing it...any ideas?)

Before....Once again trust carries the day....it all starts out pretty disheveled but some curling (curlers?), slip (styling gel?), and attention to detail and a few hours later...it's very presentable!...no, I'm not talking about my hair....