So this is, this teapot is really just this is a beginning of an idea I guess and I've got one
that I started here and I've been looking at these English Staffordshire punch pots
that have a really large body and they have these very skinny spouts that come off them
and what I became interested in is just the way a pot could have such an intense volume
and a lot of feeling of structure you know so it's kind of the square foot and the square
finial and then have these vulnerable, somewhat vulnerable attachments but the attachments like
the spout and the handle and the finial are definitely up to the task, they're up
to the job but they're fairly vulnerable so what I don't know about the spouts yet is,
I don't know if I have to make a press mold or if I can make them the way I'm making them right now
which is a slab which will work out so we'll try and see. So just get some kind of pattern going.
In this pot it's an unusual shape because it's got so much length to it. I like this idea of the
spout really hugging up close to the pot. You know it's sort of taking the arch taking the curve and
then likewise with a handle that it feels somewhat robust in its size but it's actually fairly lean
so my sense was that your full fist could maybe get into the handle and then but it hugged the pot
really closely. Ergonomically that works because the closer you are to a weight, the easier it is
to manage it but also just this thinness that echoes the the feeling of the spout and and of
the, these create these scale relationships too so a thinner handle, thinner spout,
the finial, those things make this feel larger and that's part of the tension I'm interested in.
And then
figure out how it's gonna sit on there.