The Love Affair Continues

There are 16 portraits of coffee cups now so I decided to see what happened if I layered them all in photoshop. Controlling the color was difficult so I decided to work in black and white. Really like what happened. It reminded me of the wonderful lines from the John Donne poem.

At the round earth's imagined corners, blow 

Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise

[From the Holy Sonnets]

The 16 layers

16 portraits

De-Constructing The Coffee Cup

Started taking apart the coffee cups thinking it was the bottom circle with the lovely stains that I wanted. So I unrolled the top rim, split the side seam, and managed to separate the bottom from the sides without to much damage and voila I had the pattern pieces. Surprisingly it was the side piece that has me intrigued. It looks like a pattern for a skirt. Hmmmn, will it form an interesting circle? No, on to plan B.

Before deconstruction

unrolling the lip

the bottom with it's beautiful marks

The side piece, inside

Circle of coffee cup shirts, on to plan B

Found

Unloading the car the other day I came across an empty coffee cup, unusual in our car as neither one of us can ever manage to drive and drink coffee at the same time. We always end up wearing the coffee. About to put it in the recycling I noticed the lines and shapes. So beautiful, so simple; the basic circle, and a line.