David McBeth on tue 13 nov 07
One of my students asked a question about the definition or distintion =
between forms, it is late and I am tired but I think I can accurately =
relate thae question as follows: How wide (or narrow) does the =
neck/opening of a pot have to be to be considered a bottle? A relarted =
question - would it be accurtate to say a vase is a bottle form but not =
all bottle forms are vaes? In other words, A vessel may be a bottle and =
function as a vase.
On another topic, you might recall I mentioned a busy working schedule =
leading up to surgery. The faculty exhibit opened this past Tueday =
evening, very successfully I might add. I've been pusshing the research =
with a wood ash glaze inspired by Tony Clennell's wood ash article in =
Ceramics Monthly in the recent past. I use unwashed, sifted wood ash - =
40%, feldspar (variously soda and potash - I like the soda spar the =
best) 40% and 20 % clay, I use either lizella or dirt from my yard. I =
live in Weakley county Tennessee, home to at least three clay companies. =
We can't grow much in the way of grass (lawn type) but we've got nice =
clay. Pic from the Faculty exhibit to appear on the blog in the coming =
days.
Our local empty bowls is Thursday, we'll have 200 bowls for the supper =
event and we'll provide another 50 to the food bank to sell there.
The surgery I mentioned having was put off to December 6th. It seems I =
developed a rather painful hernia. For some reason it hasn't flared up =
the past month during all this throwing but the surgeon want to tie the =
hernia repair in with plastic surgery to remove the mass of excess =
stomach skin as a result of gastric by-pass two years ago.
sorry to ramble on. We have been really testing the limits of our =
wonderful Olympic downdraft kiln. Bob and Rob Haugen and the gang at =
Olympic kilnare wonderful folk, making a great little kiln. Thanks you =
guys. Anyhow, I candle a load of pots over night, temp was 350ish at 8 =
am. Had some time constraint but need to get the work bisqued. One =
hour and 50 minutes to 1600 F. Yesterday we fired a C 9 glaze load, =
this morning I unloaded those pots loaded in greenware, candle a couple =
of hours, fired away. I left at four pm with a student watching the =
kiln. Got back at 10:30 pm the kiln was off and cooling. By 11:15 pm I =
haqd unloaded the bisque and reloaded an eartheware glaze and will stay =
tonight to fire it out so we can fire a load of empty bowls to C9 =
tomorrow. That will be four firings in three days.
Dave
David McBeth
330 B Gooch Hall
Department of Visual and Theatre Arts
University of Tennessee at Martin
Martin, Tennessee 38238
731-881-7416
http://davidmcbeth.blogspot.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Clayart on behalf of Richard Aerni
Sent: Tue 11/13/2007 7:48 PM
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: Re: What is art...can trees communicate...
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On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:48:18 -0800, pdp1@EARTHLINK.NET wrote:
>Hi Richard,
>I enjoyed your mentions, they make perfect sense to me...and are
>somewhat related to my own Romance of Making Things.
>Anyway...
>I did not find the part which goes into ''...can Trees communicate.." =
which
>the subject line had indicated.
Phil,
I don't know where that part went...I just threw it in there because the
discussion got sidetracked onto whether the intent of art is to =
communicate
primarily, whether craft communicates, whether two year olds having =
tantrums
are communicating, and whether trees falling in forests in solitude are
communicating. I did get some private emails about methods of =
communication
in nature which were interesting, however!
Now, if you feel that this is communication, I guess it is art, which =
makes
you and I ARTISTES!
Best,
Richard
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