{"product_id":"wesley-lemur-de-cola-anillada-taza-ceramica-con-interior-de-color","title":"Wesley · Ring-tailed lemur · Mug","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-short-desc\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eCeramic mug with the portrait of Wesley and a colored interior. Black coffee, an open window, and five minutes before the first meeting at the mairie in Ambalavao.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- LONG_DESC --\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Wesley ceramic mug carries the portrait of a ring-tailed lemur dressed in a camel coat, herringbone tweed vest, and light blue shirt. The print wraps the outside of the mug with photographic quality, and the inside has a colored glaze that contrasts with the white ceramic exterior. The handle picks up that interior color too, giving you a visual accent whenever the mug is empty or half full.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e## The market coffee and the pause before mediating\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWesley drinks his coffee mild. Always. Strong coffee overwhelms him the same way intense smells do — it's a threshold thing, not a preference. At the morning market in Ambalavao there's a stall that serves freshly brewed coffee before seven. Wesley buys one on his way to the mairie and carries it in his hand. He drinks it slowly, standing, in the courtyard of the municipal building, while he waits for the windows of the mediation room to have aired out enough.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat pause isn't in any protocol. Nobody writes it down. But it's what lets Wesley walk into the first meeting of the day with a clear head. Five minutes. Coffee in one hand. The other hand free. The sun starting to warm the east-facing facade. If someone talks to him, he answers. If nobody does, even better. The pause works better in silence, and Wesley knows it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA ceramic mug is the object that best reproduces that moment. It isn't portable like a thermos or disposable like a paper cup. It's a desk object, a kitchen table object, an object for a deliberate pause. When you fill this mug with your morning coffee and hold it with both hands, you're repeating a gesture Wesley makes every day before he opens his folder and pulls out the first file.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e## Capacity and material\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe mug holds around 325 milliliters — enough for a long coffee, a tea, or an herbal infusion. The ceramic is food-grade, dishwasher and microwave safe. The print is applied by sublimation on the glazed surface, which means it won't scratch with normal use or fade through washes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCan I use it every day? Yes. The ceramic is thick — not a delicate cup that shatters if you knock it off the counter, though it's not indestructible either. The thickness keeps the liquid warm longer than a thin-walled mug. Can it go in the dishwasher? Yes, on the top rack. In the microwave? Yes, no metal lid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWesley's portrait is printed on both sides of the mug. That means the image shows whether you hold it with your right hand or your left — a detail that seems small but determines whether the portrait faces outward (visible to others) or toward you (visible only to the person drinking).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e## What a mug says on a desk\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn Wesley's desk there's a tray labeled \"In\" and \"Out\" in marker. A rigid folder. A clip-on pen. The goat-hair brush inside the folder. And, during the first hour, a coffee. Each object has its place. Nothing is there for show.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePut this mug on your desk and something similar happens. Wesley's portrait — camel coat, tweed vest, an unblinking gaze — becomes a fixed element. Someone will ask who that is. Someone will look at the image with curiosity. And then you'll have the perfect opening to talk about a ring-tailed lemur who spends his days mediating between neighbors fighting over water and land in a town on the Malagasy highlands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWesley's bio tells how he came to work in mediation, what the archivist who gave him the brush taught him, and why the deputy mayor always has the last word: [full biography](https:\/\/www.yagopartal.com\/animal-kinhood\/wesley\/).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e## Inside the collection\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe mug is part of Wesley's full product catalog in Animal Kinhood. If the portrait works for you in ceramic, consider it in fabric too: the [tote bag](https:\/\/www.yagopartal.com\/objects\/) carries the same image printed on sturdy cotton, and the [youth t-shirt](https:\/\/www.yagopartal.com\/objects\/) reproduces it in full color on soft fabric. Each format has its function — the mug is for the pause, the bag for transit, the t-shirt for wearing it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMade to order. When you confirm the purchase, the mug is produced, printed, and individually packaged to protect the ceramic in transit. Lead time is three to seven business days before shipping, depending on the destination. The shipping tab has the details.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yago Partal Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57727702204741,"sku":"3109483_11051","price":19.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1052\/7830\/8677\/files\/wesley_ak-mug-000.webp?v=1776697163","url":"https:\/\/checkout.yagopartal.com\/products\/wesley-lemur-de-cola-anillada-taza-ceramica-con-interior-de-color","provider":"Yago Partal · Studio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}