I apologise for all the mug related content I’ve posting recently… my feed here tends to reflect what it is that I’m doing in the studio and well, these simple mugs have been at the forefront of my craft for the past two weeks. There are hundreds of the damn pots slowly drying beneath plastic at the moment, I board them up in a wrapping of plastic sheeting and slot them over the radiators to gradually turn bone dry, this way cracks in the handles joins practically never occur. Slow and even drying is key. If instead I pulled a batch of handles and just left the board out in the open on my workbench, I’m pretty certain they’d all simply crack off. I adore the repetition by the way, for mugs especially, they’re simple enough to not feel intimidating, and they provide a good balance of techniques: throwing, trimming and finally handling pulling. They’re as close to a mantra as I get with this craft and they’re perhaps the only shape where I feel any sense of ‘mindfulness’ as I create them, (I normally dislike this term in relation to pottery), but with these I can simply let my hands get on with the job whilst my ears are following along to my audiobook, hands occupied, mind occupied and the hours pass in a flash. #pottery #mug #wheelthrownpottery #asmr #craftsmanship #maker #studiopottery