In December 2000, I visited the Insectarium in Philadelphia. I bought a mug in the gift shop which had a lump of clay painted to look like a cockroach on the bottom of the mug.
In 2014, I started regularly producing pottery, including several inspired by the mug from the Insectarium.
Plain on the outside, molded cockroach on the inside bottom:
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Molded roaches on the outside and inside
I made another series of cockroach cups in 2018:
Negative images of cockroaches (rubber cockroach pressed into the clay)
Cup with sculpted cockroaches
Cup with sculpted roach face and molded cockroach on the inside:
Pot with cockroaches masquerading as eyelashes from 2020:
