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One of the often-mentioned pleasures of functional art such as pottery is its ability to bring heightened awareness to ordinary acts – to intensify and “make special” the fundamental human activities of eating, drinking, and cooking. But it is equally wonderful that functional art has the power to disappear. Thus a handmade cup can tamp down the art experience, push it below the threshold of attention, where it enters the user through the portal of the senses, rather than through the focused eye and conscious mind. It sneaks into your day and becomes part of the texture of your bodily life.