Three blue and black utensil forms
VERGE | 2004 | photo: Doug Yaple · Three blue and black utensil forms · print p 53
p 53

Verge

Verb is the word that takes ordinary -insert products here- and lends direction, function; makes me feel like I’m already using them and couldn’t imagine myself still again.

Disconnected thoughts seamed together whole. Marketable, collectible, displayable, useable, modern place settings; retraining wrist postures everywhere! Curvy shapes with Palate-Scald Mitigation System®.

Darting eyes examine, dissect, observe, record, and process. Poised finger grasp, sketch, click, type and plan. Machines slice, print, burn, cast. Blurred hands cut, file, bend, forge, refine, and atomized plastic pigments are (-) attracted, baked and sealed.

Computer assisted design, mixed media construction, hand/machine-made, non- nesting, definitely undishwasher-safe. Wrap your digits around the heat capable, corrosion-averse, cobalt stalk, squeeze the soft, palm-sized, rubber bellows (reciprocate.) Lift, dip, pierce, cool, consume, repeat...