10-Year Anniversary "Shadow" Mug - Limited Edition

SHADOW.

As soon as Ayda approached me about doing mugs and showed me her skull designs, I immediately said yes. I'd been wanting something special to celebrate our 10 years, but I didn't expect something this kickass. We went back and forth on ideas until it hit me, we could blend several of her design elements into one piece. It came out even better than I imagined.

The idea I was going for was "shadow," the duality we all live in. Gloss on one half, matte on the other, divided by a line of skulls. Memento Mori if you want to be stoic about it, or just a sick goth design if you don't. The lines represent water and the fluidity of life, the gloss finish giving it a cosmic feel, like staring into an endlessly expanding universe. There's even a little surprise at the bottom, like the dark caves we're sometimes too afraid to explore.

+Michael, High Priest

""I'm a Colombian-American who's always struggled with finding my footing, raised on Los Chalchaleros and Judas Priest in equal measure, never quite fitting one box or another. Living in Japan for a year changed that. My "halves" made the whole of someone new, and it was there I took my first pottery class, traditional Japanese wheel-throwing, almost by accident. That one semester changed everything.|| I've been self-taught ever since, teaching myself through YouTube tutorials and sheer stubbornness. My work explores the balance I've always struggled with: strength in delicacy. I never want a piece sitting on a shelf gathering dust, I want it held, felt, used. Enjoyed for what it was made to be.""

Ayda Fisher, Homebrew Pottery