Monday Morning Out of the Kiln

Functional Fossils

The small figures on these espresso cups are made with a sprig/stamp I created last Summer at Penland.


The wonderful heart shape is an antique shoe buckle that belonged to my grandmother, and the snowflake is a plastic window decal we used on a sliding glass door in the '70s. I am currently a little obsessive about finding new patterns and textures for stamps. "Mom, where's the toothbrush holder?" I hear from the bathroom. I'm using the bottom of it to make another stamp. Combining the impressions of old objects and new images feels archaeological. I feel like I'm making fossils.