This Phil Patton Show is Too Hot to Handle

Just after our Clearview Commitment Ceremony where we’ll be beginning our new polygamous lifestyle with everyone who wrote pieces about new freeway signage prior to last week, a related exhibition will open that features one of our significant others, Phil Patton, and his collection of–what else?–coffee cup lids:

Humble and ephemeral objects, coffee cup lids–collected from delis, java huts and gas stations–are thoughtful and complex in their design. As a new technologies ranging from computer-aided design and manufacturing to scientific analysis of the ordinary act of drinking have converged on such simple bits of circular plastic, the hot beverage lid has developed an astonishingly complex geometry.