Cups, Saucers, & Trays_Louise Shye

When it comes to cups with saucers and trays, I immediately think of tea cups and tea time when I was a child, every little girl had to have a set; playing pretend tea time with imaginary friends or stuffed animals. My idea I want to create with this is something like a enchanting fantasy or dream. This instantly brings me back to childhood years and I want to bring that back from the past. This cup and saucer by Jeff Campana is very simple, but yet used fantastic craftsmanship. It reminds me of something enchanting, like if I was a fairy drinking out of a leaf tea cup.

This tray by Tom Rohr is shaped closely to the bowls which I really like, there are many circular and rectangular trays, why not something different? everyone likes different if it turns out right. Also the handle in the middle is unique compared to the handles being on each side of the tray.

more modernly, Nicholas Bivins work is something that is also unique, very structural with using squared corners rather than it usually being rounded. I could not imagine drinking out of something so structural, rather something more usable and comfortable is more ideal.

Lastly, Patrick Coughlin's work looks like something an upper class worker would own and drink out of, the tray is very complexed, giving the simplicity of the cups more value to it than if the cups were by themselves. The tray to me looks like a pillow for the cups giving the illusion that the cups are fragile.

Bivins, Nicholas. Artaxis an evolving independent network of artists. http://www.artaxis.org/ceramics/bivins_nicholas/nicholas_bivins.html (accessed October 9, 2011).

Campana, Jeff. "AccessCeramics: Object Type - Green Curve Cup and Saucer." AccessCeramics: a Contemporary Ceramics Image Resource. AccessCeramics, 2009. Web. 09 Oct. 2011.

Coughlin, Patrick. Artaxis an evolving independent network of artists. http://www.artaxis.org/ceramics/coughlin_patrick/patrick_coughlin.html (accessed October 9, 2011).

Rohr, Tom. "AccessCeramics: Object Type - Condiment Set." AccessCeramics: a Contemporary Ceramics Image Resource. AccessCeramics, 2009. Web. 09 Oct. 2011.