I’m glad Nikko could share her interpretation of the faggot cups and hope you will, too. Like so many others, I believe the things we make reflect our times–what are your reflections?

I think there’s so many cups out there that are simply ‘comfortable,’ but I think our objects can and should have a stronger personality. For me, this text is a response to homophobia in our culture, a culture which frequently claims to believe that sexuality is not a big deal, not an issue worth discussing, yet it is something that some of us have no choice but to confront and when it comes right down to it, even us ‘liberals’ would rather not discuss it. By reclaiming this phrase and juxtaposing it with a delicate object, I aim to make an uncomfortable object for the domestic setting.

Plus beauty of form, texture, line, etc etc etc, which in some ways makes the words irrelevant.

xoxo,

Dustin Yager
Maker of Things

As for those mugs, I worship them, even more so after reading Nikko’s perspective on them. Sometimes reality is art is not always comfortable. but I know I’d be inspired drinking my morning coffee from one of them.

:)