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I dug this one out from a while back. It was an early experiment, trying to see if I could mash up the boxy lines of a Gundam with the flow of totem art. I\u2019ve always been curious why a robot face and a carved mask feel so similar to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The blue glaze did some heavy lifting here\u2014pooling deep in the cuts and staying thin on the edges. It\u2019s a small tumbler, but it has a weight that makes it feel like an old relic you\u2019d find in the woods rather than something made in a factory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I dug this one out from a while back. It was an early experiment, trying to see if I could mash up the boxy lines of a Gundam with the flow of totem art. I\u2019ve always been curious why a robot face and a carved mask feel so similar to me. The blue glaze did…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[114,101,67,18,120,19,116],"tags":[123,14,16,32,122],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carved-ceramic","category-fans-art","category-functional","category-gundam","category-mugs-and-cups","category-pottery","category-tumbler","tag-ancient-relics-style","tag-gundam","tag-mechas","tag-robot","tag-totem"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/littlebeak.studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG-20260422-WA00112812928129.jpg?fit=955%2C419&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/littlebeak.studio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/littlebeak.studio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/littlebeak.studio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlebeak.studio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlebeak.studio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/littlebeak.studio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615,"href":"https:\/\/littlebeak.studio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions\/615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlebeak.studio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/littlebeak.studio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlebeak.studio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlebeak.studio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}