This is my journal documenting an ongoing creative endeavor sustained by a single underlying current with 100 momentary breaks, each indicated by an individual porcelain cup which reveals both continuity and uniqueness in the way the pot is thrown, the handle is pulled and wrapped, and the form is carved and sculpted. Each piece is photographed in its raw porcelain clay state before being fired or glazed. If you would like to follow the progression from Cup #1, scroll down and click "Older Posts" or begin at the Blog Archive "2010", "March".

The 100 Cups collection has been acquired by the Haan Museum of Indiana Art in Lafayette, Indiana.

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Cup #99

Every which way.....

Cup #98

What it is that is left.....Grace.

Cup #97

Her~ectomy.....

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Cup #96

Full circle..fallopian farewell....

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Cup #94

Splitting apart....

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Cup #93 (two views)

Tender Transcendence...(2012's first cup).

Saturday, December 31, 2011

Cup #92 (two views)

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

Friday, December 16, 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.

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Cup #90

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

Friday, November 25, 2011

Cup #89

Tender sweeping....

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

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)

Thursday, November 3, 2011

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.

Monday, October 24, 2011

Cup #86

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

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Cup # 85 (two views)

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

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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....

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

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...

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Cup #82

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

Monday, August 8, 2011

Cup #81

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