Vince Pitelka on sun 13 may 07
> Is no one else ready to
> poke their eyes out just to
> make it stop?
Chris -
I have far too much respect for you and your voice on Clayart to say "just
hit the delete key." I don't want you to stop reading my posts because I am
so persistent, but I have no choice here. It is not a question of coming to
a compromise, because there's nothing to compromise on.
I just want people to understand this simple concept:
Greenware pieces that are cast or pressed in multiples from a mold are not,
by definition, handmade. Why does the discussion need to go any further
than that? I am not insisting that I am right, I am trying to help people
understand and accept a fundamental truth. It's not my truth. I don't have
anything to do with this truth, other than that I am aware of it and know
that it exists. It's just true.
Denial of a truth doesn't make it any less true.
As you say, there are so many other factors threatening the survival of
handmade craft, and for that reason, it is especially important that we
remain clear about what constitutes "handmade."
- Vince
Vince Pitelka
Appalachian Center for Craft, Tennessee Technological University
Smithville TN 37166, 615/597-6801 x111
vpitelka@dtccom.net, wpitelka@tntech.edu
http://iweb.tntech.edu/wpitelka/
http://www.tntech.edu/craftcenter/
Chris Campbell on sun 13 may 07
Is no one else ready to
poke their eyes out just to
make it stop?
There are so many other factors
threatening the survival of Handmade
Crafts that it seems a bit silly to be
slinging these piddly darts at each other.
Let the potters who dig their own clay,
throw with a treadle wheel on used lumber
bats, trim with old hunks of angle iron,
grind their own glaze materials, fire their
homemade kiln using hand hewn wood
and then give their pots away to the good
town folk claim the high ground ...
and the rest of us get back to whatever
works for us.
Chris (grumpy) Campbell - in North Carolina
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