I call the original Japanese teacup as MOM cup

1 I learned how to build up the cup in general and tried to make the shape of MOM cup

 

2-4 I used my memory on my palms to remember the shape of MOM cup, without thinking of time and surface

 

5-10 I made each cup in 10 mins for manufacturing as many as possible ( Factory feeling) Being chased

 

11-15 I made each cup in 5 mins for enjoying the limitation of time. Trying to make the same bowls but time was more important 

 

16 I thought that No.7 cup was the best cup among every 15 cups because I could imagine of whisking with the cup in the roundness and the balance. So I made a copy of No.7

 

17 I brought MOM cup to the workshop. I found that the real cup was much bigger than the cups I had been making. Feeling RESET

 

18 I destroyed the cup once to recreate another one to resemble to MOM cup

 

19 I touched and saw MOM cup to create without caring about time

 

20 I touched and saw MOM cup and I imagined about water stream and tree chunks 

 

21 In the middle of making the cup, I drunk the Japanese green tea matcha in MOM cup to remember the memories of the taste, smell, texture on my lips and the tense atmosphere 

 

22 I was listening to KIRINJI ’s “Drifter” which I used to listen when I was writing my dissertation the last year. I remembered the garden tea ceremony with tears

 

23 The cup slept for a night and I continued to develop in the next evening. Night cup

 

24 It was my first time to use water to make smooth surface. I used a sponge too

 

25 I made the cup without seeing MOM cup and tried to be dynamic 

 

26 I just wanted to make a cup with an alien face. I remembered about witnessing UFO in my previous university with my friend and a lady told us that the stomach brain is very important to experience the UFO

 

27 I touched MOM cup

 

28 I hid MOM cup and made the cup in 10 mins

 

29 I made a cup for a dwarf. I’m getting distracted and wanting to make different things like a plate, a monster, a doll and so on

 

30 I made a cat cup for soothing myself from the tiredness from making cup

 

31 When I brought MOM cup, I realized that it has a supporter (foot) beneath. So I learned how to put the supporter

 

32-34 I made them in every 5mins

 

35 I used the rest of the clay as the most shadow part of the cup

 

36 Feel 5 Taste 7 Hear 3 See 7 Smell 3 Think 8 (10 is the maximum) Destruction, sound of clay, concentration sometimes, I used MOM cup 

 

37 Feel 8 Taste 3 Hear 2 See 5 Smell 6 Think 0 Just considering about the balance

 

38 Feel 9 Taste 7 Hear 1 See 2 Smell 3 Think 3 I imagined an old man, felt bitterness of tea

 

39 Feel 7 Taste 2 Hear 3 See 7 Smell 3 Think 6 Grow grow longer longer

 

40 Feel 3 Taste 3 Hear 4 See 7 Smell 1 Think 0 Imitate 39

 

41 Listening to pop music quite bright feeling.  I touched MOM cup 

 

42 Tried to open the mouth in order to get water

 

43 Imitated 42. Dancing along

 

44 Looking at MOM cup to create

 

45 Touching MOM cup with closed eyes

 

46 Made without looking at MOM cup

 

47-50 I didn’t think anything

 

51 Shaping as a copy of 50. I filmed how I make

 

52 I used the rest of the clay. Small green tea cup not for whisking

 

I made a cup for a present for someone

 

53  The cup I made for someone looking very nice(same height of rims) so I copied the shape of the cup 

 

54 

 

55 I used MOM cup to balance the size of the cup with no music (broken)

 

56 I tried to make it as rounder as possible

 

57 , 58 5mins

 

59 Imitated 56 but higher

 

60 5mins tried to make smooth 

 

61 Imagined about a tower

 

62 Imitated 61 but more rounder

 

63 Used MOM cup to shape

 

64 Used MOM cup to hold

 

65 Talked during making, no time

 

66 Looked and touched MOM cup 

 

67 Tried to make a copy of 66

 

68-76 in 10 mins

 

77 Made without seeing models but memories on my palms

 

78 in 10mins copied 77

 

79 Concentrated on the memory of my palms 

 

80 a copy of 79

 

81-83 in 10 mins

 

84 listened to my two favorite Japanese pop artists ‘Gen Hoshino’ and ‘Ringo Shiina’

 

85 Overnight cup

 

86 I tried to whisk tea virtually 

 

87- 89 in 10mins

 

89 I remembered one of my friends in Japan 

 

90 Used a sense from whisking tea in 10 mins

 

91 I decided to make symmetry one I thought that a perfect balance is always related to symmetric. And it looks good to drink

 

92 Tried to make 91’s shape again

 

93 I used the rest of white clay. i made a supporter higher

 

94 in 10 mins. tried to make a similar one of 93

 

95-100  in 10 mins thinking nothing

 

99 I remembered the days I have worked in a beer factory 

 

101 a pear an apple.  Just enjoyed the process and felt sad for finishing this project 

 

102 Talked about Semiotic poetic language. If I have a presentation in Japanese in front of Norwegian people, I would feel comfortable but not opposite

 

103 - 107 in 10mins thinking nothing

 

108 It became not a cup but a dish for serving a dumpling