Cups and Handles
Betsy Williams:
With Betsy Williams work, her cups distinguish a unique style of cup. Ceramic cups have handles, at least that is what this Blog is about, however with her cups, and the visual over rides the usefulness. The cups are designed to visually appeal the audience, convincing them that handling these cups will damage its value. This is what I see. She uses rims, which also gives the cups more of a fragile look to them. When looking at these cups, I don’t want to touch them, pour anything in them; they are too fragile, unique, and gorgeous.
Emily Schroeder’s cups have an interesting texture to them. I could not imagine holding my lips to something that is not smooth. It reminds me of the video we watched the first day of class, where a cup was not ideally a good drinking cup; however the texture made it to where the drink was already gone without tasting it. The cups are something I do not see myself drinking out of due to the texture continuing onto the rim and handle. If there was a texture on the body of the cup more so than the rim and handle, I can see people drinking out of those rather than Emily Schroeder’s work. From what I see, her work reminds me of something on cloud nine. They don’t seem very comfortable to many people, especially the handles on the second image.
Citations:
Anderson, Zoe, and Michael Lindsey. Watzek Library, "accessCeramics a contemporary ceramics image resource." Accessed September 25, 2011. http://www.accessceramics.org.
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