stephani stephenson on fri 28 mar 08
Kelly
first: mel's post :to phrase it another way:
something a very fine Montana painter named Larry
Pirnie told me one time
"It is between you and the paint"
or ,to translate.."It's between you and the clay."
period! "when you are troubled and cannot sleep, just
count your blessings"...and remember THAT!
Kelly , what i would suggest is get out your fine set
of verbal chops and do a saber dance with this
paper/project/subject.....first take a step back, then
lunge! tear it apart, put it back together, spin it
around a few times,
with VERVE, baby. you know you can!
this same exact conflict/dilemma/sense of loss/feeling
that the shallowness was "oozing about on the living
room floor", etc was going on when i went through the
MFA pasta extruder and got spit out, wondering just
what sort of noodle i was and what in the world was
going on with the great sacred but soon to be
extinct omnipasta i believed in.. a pasta dinosaur!
how does a pasta dinosaur dress for interviews? or do
they get interviews?
I , rigosaurus, would be obsolete before i could even
be enjoyed with garlic and olive oil!
but, 2 things.!
YOU are discovering it NOW, fresh topic, for real, for
you! you tackle it your way!
3. it has nothing to do with garth clark or the death
of craftsmanship or __________(fill in the blank),I
mean, OK< disegard what i said about this being new
and fresh for you... or even that it was fresh for me
some years back.....good heavens it happened
centuries ago!
it has everything to do with the fact that you are way
, way down the barrel of the University
extruder/pastamaker and you are looking at the ghosts
of linguini and penne and bowties which have squirted
through the exit templates before you, and you are
horrified and questioning and adamant ... because
it is almost time to graduate!!!!!
and you aren't sure where the MFA extruder rocket is
pointing or how long you will be airborne or whether
you will stick when you hit the wall, when
jettisoned......
and then oh woe! , when you are all alone in your
studio , moping around with your sad clay you will
feel 'cannelloni'
wrong! sorry kelly, not the picture seester
stephaloni is seeing for you in her crystal ball !
plus that was a truly horrible pun
just make sure , immediately after you get the diploma
that
1.someone spanks you (lightly, just till you breathe)
2. you poop within 4 days
it's better that way.
Stephani
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