\"I\'m still amazed how our two lives align\" The two of us. A pair!\"

Did someone say \"a pair\"? I\'ll confess that the idea didn\'t occur to me until I removed the gentleman from the kiln. Something wasn\'t right. There was a look of longing. A fixed stare that left me aching. The next day, I knew the answer--he was lonely. I set to making someone that could be the object of that stare and turn it from defeat to devotion. From the moment I placed them side by side, I knew they were inseparable. Old tangled souls. I\'m really a flimsy old romantic at heart. This sale will be for BOTH JUGS.

While the starry-eyed lover in me is tempted to elaborate on the story of enchantment and the tugging bond these two share, my guess is that you, who have certainly been witness to such devotion, recognize it all in these photos. Therefore, I will, for once, try to exercise some restraint and just get to the specifics. Height: they are both just a hair under 8\" tall. Glaze: both are glazed with my home made glazes. Condition: mint or perfect. Signed: both are signed and dated on the bottom.

The only other details to draw your attention and perhaps questions are the handles. For the man, his wispy combed over hair forms the handle. For the lady, an errant curl of her locks likewise forms a perfectly usable handle. Also of note, the neck or spout of the jug for her is a smart little pillbox cap with floral adornments.

I am a high school English teacher. For the past few years I have had my twelfth graders work on a project in the last quarter where they have to teach themselves something new--a new skill? Hobby? Trade? The sky is the limit. This year I decided I would share with them something that I taught myself about six years ago--pottery. I made a 60 second video on YouTube showing how I turn that glob of goo into a face jug.

A year or so ago I was contacted by writer/director Chad Crawford Kinkle, who had just won Slamdance\'s top prize for best horror script, to make around 20 face jugs for his film. The film is currently scaring the pants off of viewers in festivals here and abroad. News is that it was just picked up by a distributor, so start looking for it around July. I included a still and a shot of the new poster to show my pots acting their scariest.

To see more, please check out my website. Google: theyankeepotter.

Thanks for looking.Who made this?
My name is Jason Mahlke, and I am a self taught potter. I turn the pots in my basement, create thefaces at my kitchen table, and fire them in my garage. I admire theSouthern potters like the Meaders and Hewell families. Their pottery always features such solid,graceful forms with crude but expressive faces. But I am also drawn to thesophisticated and lifelike looks of some of Wallace Martin\'s face jugsand grotesques. I think I\'m beginning to get close to capturing thatsort of impossible balance. I mainly use Georgia clay because of its heavy grog. This gives the jars the sandy texture that you would find inthe Southern stoneware. I make jugs, jars, coffee cups, salt & pepper holders...pretty much anything that can serve as some sort of container.