David Woof on fri 18 sep 09
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When I wish to shake things up/get something going with my students I make =
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a statment 'that if one makes something once and there is a quality of inve=
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stigation=3D2C exploration or discovery manifested in the piece then it is =
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st likely art=3D2C but if one then repeats the performance and produces an=
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her of same without pushing the idea further it is now a practicing of craf=
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t'.
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This leads to the inevitable questions and opinions re art vs craft...good =
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art/bad art....and when the room shifts from rumble to heightening roar I s=
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lip away=3D2C with a satisfied chuckle=3D2C trusting from experience that=
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th all these excited shouted expressions and elevated emotions....=3D2C whe=
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they get back to work=3D2C indeed art will happen in my studio class room t=
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ay.
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Am I an artist=3D2C have this day my students become artists? I've always=
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n my head tryed to let others decide=3D2C keeps the ego in bounds=3D2C but =
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yself I am "david thing maker" and I make things and manipulate ideas and m=
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aterials because I must. =3D20
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The public obviously has decided "to hell with Webster" but it demands a ti=
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tle to give everyone so in press and conversation... Yes=3D2C proudly=3D2C =
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an artist.
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World renouned=3D2C honored=3D2C critically aclaimed=3D2C disected-bisected=
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vered by many=3D2C feared by competitors.........a force in my own world...=
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depending on which side of the bed I rolled out of or off of any particula=
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r morning. Did I say ego....elephant balls=3D2C rhino skin...??? we need=
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ur fair share if we take the title and go public.
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And always we need to let the avant-garde play while sometimes "idiots" fol=
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low in wonder. and we need the pendulum to swing from there back to the nay=
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sayers and chicken littles. In the wide zone between these needed extreems =
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there is room and hunger for the giving of an ordinary thing or idea a new =
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prespective=3D2C of human interaction with ageless universal human truths a=
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the artists=3D2C maniplators that we are=3D2C try even to topple these.
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David Woof
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Clarkdale=3D2C Arizona
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3.1. Re: Why I will never be an Artist...
Posted by: "Snail Scott" claywork@FLYING-SNAIL.COM=3D20
Date: Thu Sep 17=3D2C 2009 1:02 pm ((PDT))
> James Freeman said:
> ......> Sorry=3D2C but my entry will win. I am going to enter a pug of
> wet clay
>> still in the bag. It will be entitled "Unthrown Pot"....
I did that already. For a themed group show
of 'interactive' sculpture=3D2C I put 200# of Lizella
clay (closest I could get to 'natural' without a
shovel) and plopped it on top of a sculpture
pedestal. Set up a water bucket and towel
nearby. Titled it 'Playing God'. All night there
was a crowd of people around it=3D2C creating
their own landscapes and forms=3D2C adding to=3D2C
modifying=3D2C or annihilating those of previous
visitors=3D2C some of whom came back later to
restore their lost and altered creations.
-Snail
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