These photos display a set of bowls and cups with a dark brown glaze. The bowls are textured like craters with grooves running from the center outward and small divets as well as rocky-looking pieces, interrupting the lines. The cups are smooth except for two small craters opposing each other on the outside of each cup, intended to be used as dimples to help users hold the cups.
These photos display a set of bowls and cups with a dark brown glaze. The bowls are textured like craters with grooves running from the center outward and small divets as well as rocky-looking pieces, interrupting the lines. The cups are smooth except for two small craters opposing each other on the outside of each cup, intended to be used as dimples to help users hold the cups.
These photos display a set of bowls and cups with a dark brown glaze. The bowls are textured like craters with grooves running from the center outward and small divets as well as rocky-looking pieces, interrupting the lines. The cups are smooth except for two small craters opposing each other on the outside of each cup, intended to be used as dimples to help users hold the cups.
These photos display a set of bowls and cups with a dark brown glaze. The bowls are textured like craters with grooves running from the center outward and small divets as well as rocky-looking pieces, interrupting the lines. The cups are smooth except for two small craters opposing each other on the outside of each cup, intended to be used as dimples to help users hold the cups.
These photos display a set of bowls and cups with a dark brown glaze. The bowls are textured like craters with grooves running from the center outward and small divets as well as rocky-looking pieces, interrupting the lines. The cups are smooth except for two small craters opposing each other on the outside of each cup, intended to be used as dimples to help users hold the cups.
These photos display a set of bowls and cups with a dark brown glaze. The bowls are textured like craters with grooves running from the center outward and small divets as well as rocky-looking pieces, interrupting the lines. The cups are smooth except for two small craters opposing each other on the outside of each cup, intended to be used as dimples to help users hold the cups.
These photos display a set of bowls and cups with a dark brown glaze. The bowls are textured like craters with grooves running from the center outward and small divets as well as rocky-looking pieces, interrupting the lines. The cups are smooth except for two small craters opposing each other on the outside of each cup, intended to be used as dimples to help users hold the cups.

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Carrier Craters

Martha Quirie

December 1st, 2025

Major: Art Practices and Psychology

Genre/Medium: Stoneware Clay

About the Work: 

This body of work is called Carrier Craters and is intended to be a functional dining set for four, based on the imagined craters of 16 Psyche. The bowls are all unique and intended to mimic the unique impact craters. Each cup is made with dimple “handles” that look like mini craters for better handability and more consistent connection to the surface of Psyche. With the glaze and surface texture, I aimed to evoke the rocky surface and metalloid composition of Psyche. I hoped with these pieces to bring 16 Psyche into everyday household conversation. It is so easy for space objects to feel intangible with the distance that we are from them. With these vessels, I close that distance a little bit by bringing the supposed surface of 16 Psyche into the physical world, using surface decorations. Additionally, these pieces were born from the idea that 16 Psyche is an asteroid holding crucial information about other potential planetary cores. Although its metallic composition is currently unknown, this mission should shed light on its chemical buildup, and therefore, potential origins. I wanted to bring into physical form vessels that will hold vital nutrients in the form of food just in the same way that 16 Psyche holds vital information.

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Date Added: 12-01-2025
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Martha Quirie - Psyche Inspired

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