I hope you like these little pots. After making drawings and photos for so long, and after Covid and moving to a new state, I needed to make something utilitarian. Something that had some practical use and I could test it every day. So I started making these little pots. I had this idea that if they had ridges, you could hold them with hot coffee inside and you wouldn't need a handle.
First I just pinched the clay and carved the ridges by hand. Then I got a pottery wheel and started obsessively prototyping. I'm still in that phase. Here are some that I've made so far.
The ridges help to delay the heat traveling from the liquid to your hand, but also act a bit like a heat sink. So that's a good name for them, heat sink pots. Alternately when you fill them with cold water and condensation forms, the grooves hold it, so there's no ring on the table. The shape has become an engineering feature. They are also very easy to hold.
