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How much should a mug weigh ?

17/12/2013

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I remember a throwing class at Alfred University, one of the first ones with Val Cushing. He asked us "how much should a mug weigh ?"
Numbers were thrown around, till my friend Matt Towers said - "however much it looks like it weighs". Bingo ! 
That's the exact match point in the eye-hand relationship.

 When we approach a mug, or any other functional pot, our eye (brain) sends our hand a message about what to expect as to the weight and feel to anticipate when lifting it (if full or empty). That's what makes a "good" pot, good in the sense of creating that match between the look and the feel. 

A mug , of course, has more aspects to it - a handle we can trust and a rim that is nice to put our lips to. In  addition are the personal-subjective prefferences we all have and those are what make the mug such an intimate, functional pot.


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