Ø 3.75” x 2.75” h. Each cup embeds trimmings from the nerikomi processes that we use to form our bowls & plates. Patterned fragments and solid clay sections are hand-pressed into a plaster mold, casting them in place; inlay patterns are visible on both interior & exterior surfaces, with matching handle extruded from the same pattern.
The micro bats here are that next gen extrusion miniaturization that Shannon has been developing. The level of intricate detail is completely sublime and will likely transform any coffee or tea experience you have. Like the fish patterns from earlier series, the bats here are all clones—made from a vertical stack then cut into slices and then assembled.
And with the strange miasmic world that these bats inhabit, are these mugs now seasonal, arriving just ahead of Halloween? Perhaps. To me, they harken back to the eccentric world of Victor Hugo’s drawings done in exile on the Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey in the 19th century. Is exile in Victorian England akin to being sequestered in a glass garage in Fircrest? Again, perhaps.
But this precipice may be a lighthouse and perhaps this story is ascendent—an abstract beacon calling to all the creature of the night to arise. Arise! Arise!
Interior surface is clear-glazed while the exterior surface is left raw to enhance the experience of touching natural clay. All Slush Club objects are food-safe and dishwasher-friendly.
While our cups are formed in a plaster mold, each cup is unique and variation is to be expected; the stacking of clays and forming to the mug shape also creates subtle warping (like, the opening is not an even oval but rather a more organic version of what an oval could be).
Ø 3.75” x 2.75” h. Each cup embeds trimmings from the nerikomi processes that we use to form our bowls & plates. Patterned fragments and solid clay sections are hand-pressed into a plaster mold, casting them in place; inlay patterns are visible on both interior & exterior surfaces, with matching handle extruded from the same pattern.
The micro bats here are that next gen extrusion miniaturization that Shannon has been developing. The level of intricate detail is completely sublime and will likely transform any coffee or tea experience you have. Like the fish patterns from earlier series, the bats here are all clones—made from a vertical stack then cut into slices and then assembled.
And with the strange miasmic world that these bats inhabit, are these mugs now seasonal, arriving just ahead of Halloween? Perhaps. To me, they harken back to the eccentric world of Victor Hugo’s drawings done in exile on the Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey in the 19th century. Is exile in Victorian England akin to being sequestered in a glass garage in Fircrest? Again, perhaps.
But this precipice may be a lighthouse and perhaps this story is ascendent—an abstract beacon calling to all the creature of the night to arise. Arise! Arise!
Interior surface is clear-glazed while the exterior surface is left raw to enhance the experience of touching natural clay. All Slush Club objects are food-safe and dishwasher-friendly.
While our cups are formed in a plaster mold, each cup is unique and variation is to be expected; the stacking of clays and forming to the mug shape also creates subtle warping (like, the opening is not an even oval but rather a more organic version of what an oval could be).
