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Project: Cup visited the studio of KC Urban Potters founding member, and Artaxis member, Paul Donnelly for an extra-special studio visit. Pictured here are some images of Paul in his studio (shared with fellow artists, Rain Harris and Kate Schroeder) in Midtown, Kansas City. Paul brought a special cup made by Lee Rexrode to talk about.
Paul explains:
“This is the first piece of functional pottery that I ever owned. I won this. It was part of a Christmas raffle that Lee Rexrode, my teacher, would have at his house. At the time, I wasn’t that tuned into making functional pots…..This cup, in so many ways, just really inspired me to think about utility and function and the ideas of the handmade and all of these really beautiful things that a cup can encompass.
What is so amazing about this cup is the handle. It used to be the thing that I would gravitate towards all the time until, you know, it broke. It got a little bit of a fracture, so it is retired at this point. When you go and pick it up, the handle is in a spot that is so balanced. It is the most comfortable handle that I own, hands down. The handle is cut so that underneath your finger can lay pretty flat, then there is a little thumb area on the top. I remember Lee talking about this when we were in undergraduate school and giving presentations about handles and talking about holding pieces and thinking how interesting that was. But actually really feeling this in real life…..and remembering how and what he talked about in relation to how he makes his work and how he thinks about his work was incredibly inspiring. There is this element of thinking about design and function here that has definitely influenced, you know, how I approach my own work in terms of comfortability, and ergonomics and those types of things.
This one little cup just opened up a lot of things for me…in thinking about design and aesthetics and what people can make and…..all of that.”
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