Flip Cup Pour · Functional
When it’s open, it’s a shelf. One object. Two states.
The problem it solved
The desk was cluttered. Speaker, pen cup, hand lotion, whatever else needs to be within arm’s reach — all of it competing for surface space. A fold-down shelf is neither a side table nor a permanent wall shelf. When it’s open it holds everything. When it folds flat against the wall, the clutter disappears and the painting comes back.
The brackets are bolted into studs. Countersunk holes were drilled for the mounting screws before pouring so the hardware disappears into the painted surface.
The pour
The shelf is long enough that one cup wouldn’t cover it, so two flip cups were used, positioned to meet in the middle. Green, teal, and blue over the full surface. Dense cellular development across both zones.
There’s a spot near one edge where too much paint pooled during the drain. At the viewing distance a wall-mounted shelf gets, it reads as texture. Up close it’s a record of a decision made and not made again.
The denser zone near the edge — where excess paint settled during the drain. Deep green and dark blue-purple forms compressed together. From across the room: texture. Up close: a decision record.
The main field where the two cup zones meet — green and teal cells with deep blue pockets opening between them. Each cup carried its own color sequence; you can read where one ends and the other begins.