
Fairies Name Spark Cup - Large
A little story on this cup...I had a studio in Bellingham about 10 years ago. It looked out over the Puget Sound. One day I looked out the window and imagined I saw a little chicken heading out to sea in her small wooden dinghy. I asked myself, "Where is that happy chicken going....?","Off to a place where the fairies know her name" popped into my head as the answer. I began drawing the chicken on her ocean voyage...upon various forms of transportation...one cup had her traveling via swan boat. Since then, it has been her favorite mode of travel. . The Spark Cups are my painted poems upon a cup, with a bit of wonder and kindness stirred into the art for good measure. In the spirit of Charles DeLint's words, "touch magic, pass it on", I hope my time in the realm of makers and poets, where I forge a bit of myself to the great body of collective work, is carried to you upon a cup. May whatever it stirs in you be passed on down the line. Like prints of a painting, the c