InkFlow — Chalice fall

InkFlow — Chalice fallThe same pattern. A different weight. Invert a pattern and you change it more than you expect. The Chalice takes the same mandala as the Knot triangle knots, scrolling curves, a small heart at the center and reverses the ground. Where the Knot is red ink on white, the Chalice is white forms cut from a crimson field. The shapes that emerge are more open, more vessel like, and somehow more formal than their counterparts. Same design, different argument.

the white ground keeps the whole thing from going heavy

The palette is warm all the way through: deep gold

The result is a mug that looks confident from across the room and holds up to that confidence every morning

Solid teal diamonds anchor the pattern

puts on their windowsill

A good Father's Day

with a faintly rosy undertone in the lighter crosshatch lines

The right birthday for someone who finds most patterned mugs too much

and doesn't plan to start

A bold zigzag in golden yellow and sky blue

brighter territory

set toward long wavelength