Wynne Wilbur on sun 7 feb 99
Just to add to information already discussed - I had a 14 year old high
school student who could only use her right hand due to a stroke. Using
a wheel that could go clockwise, she quickly mastered centering with one
hand on relatively small pieces and also opened and pulled with her
thumb. Her acheivement in this process became a very important part of
her emotional and physical therapy. (It was good for me as a teacher
too - never hurts to shift a few paradigms)
Wynne Wilbur
wmwil@ufl.edu
lela martens on thu 8 feb 01
Dear Debi, I am downsizing our guild`s old magazines and periodicals, and
among them is an article from the 70s about one handed throwing. I will see
if the computer guy upstairs can scan it to you, or perhaps your
organization has a fax? There are some good pictures.Please reply personal
address. (lost yours) Lela
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Wes Bjur on fri 9 feb 01
Dear Lela Martens...
My name is Wes Bjur and I lost one of my arm in an accident about 20 years
ago. Is it possible at the articles/scanned of the 1970s might come to me? I
am an amateur at pot throwing, and I sure could use ideas from the
"Universe".
Thank You
Wes
w_bjur@hotmail.com
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>Dear Debi, I am downsizing our guild`s old magazines and periodicals, and
>among them is an article from the 70s about one handed throwing. I will see
>if the computer guy upstairs can scan it to you, or perhaps your
>organization has a fax? There are some good pictures.Please reply personal
>address. (lost yours) Lela
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primalmommy@IVILLAGE.COM on fri 9 feb 01
I recently asked the same question about a student of mine, and got a few suggestions I can dig out of my email and send you. My student was born without his right hand and forearm. We will start wheel work in about a month, and I'd love to keep in touch with you about trials and errors as we go! Can you email me directly, please, at primalmommy@ivillage.com ?
Thanks... Kelly in Ohio (who met Peter Voulkos last night; watched him work in the studio, touched his famous hand, even got an autograph... still processing all I've taken in...)
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clennell on fri 9 feb 01
Many years ago I took a 6 week course with F Carlton Ball at the Banff
Centre. I remember Carlton talking about his one handed student that wore a
football helmet with chin guard and used his chin and other hand. Where
there is a will there is a way.
Best of luck, tony
Paul Bailey / Janet Moe on mon 12 feb 01
Eydie DeVincenzi wrote:
> may ALL want to buy a tool that will help us work even on painful days.
Hi!
I have just received a KEMPER TOOL Catalogue and on page 2 there is a
'Clay
Devil Centering Tool' being sold as a teaching tool for beginners. Looks
like it
could be used for one handed throwing.
It is a metal bar that attaches to the wheel with a metal plate that is
pulled
against the clay. It could probably be made quite easy. I got this
catalogue from
my supplier.
Best of Luck, Janet on the sunny BC coast!
Joyce Lee on mon 12 feb 01
Eydie said:
> As we age and more of us learn how to spell 'osteoarthritis, we
> may ALL want to buy tool that will help us work even on painful days.
When I began with pottery five years ago, I knew from the first exposure
that I was going to love working with clay for the rest of my life.
However, I was reluctant to buy all the equipment I wanted for the
studio because of my late entrance into pottery... to put it bluntly,
because I'd passed my 60th birthday which seemed too old to assume a
project of such magnitude ... and to equip a studio no doubt would cost
a LOT of money to be spent in one fell swoop... not spread over 20 years
or more as most potters have done. I didn't like spending so much of a
limited family retirement income, and then perhaps being rendered unable
to work with clay because of wrists or thumbs etc. #1 Support Person was
adamant that I WOULD equip a studio and spend what money and time was
necessary in order to learn what it was clear that I NEEDED to know. My
lust for clay had already become that obvious!
Soon after discovering Clayart, someone posted about a type of opening
and centering equipment to assist potters who have developed physical
difficulties with hands, wrists, joints. Knowing my fears about just
throwing away our money on wheels and kilns, and then not being able to
use them, #1SP insisted on ordering it; I think it was from Axner's
catalog. The upshot is that I did try both pieces of equipment, and they
are now attached to my Brent trimming wheel, but I haven't tried working
with them enough to make a judgement as to their worth. However, I do
have a sense of security knowing that if (when) I am unable to work with
clay on the wheel as I presently do, I can learn to operate these
devices and perhaps continue longer than might seem reasonable to
expect. (Of course, at that time I didn't know about Beatrice Wood!).
>From my present perspective, such equipment is no substitute for
opening, centering and throwing with one's own hands, but I would not
hesitate to put them into operation if that were the only way I could
continue to satisfy my addiction to clay.
Long way around to say that if you feel such devices will help you,
don't be embarrassed about using them! Be happy that they exist. Potter
friends (not Sylvia) are surprised that I keep them on display in the
studio ... as if some shame should be attached to mere ownership! Not my
view, that's for sure!
Joyce
In the Mojave where it is raining AGAIN... all last night... and now
tonight. We normally receive about 9" yearly, but in downpours of 4 to 5
inches at a time, which then disappear rapidly into the sand.... yep,
works out to about two good rains a year. These gentle, soft rains are
lovely!
Lili Krakowski on mon 12 feb 01
I am not remotely qualified to get into this. But I have known
hemaplegics. If your student is one, then balance and so on are involvded
in the solution. I worked with an amputee once--actually she lost her
forearm through use of forceps at birth-but she could use part of her
upper arm.
Still. Just as my solution for most emotional problems is CHOCOLATE, my
underlying solution for throwing problems is to stand at the wheel (raise
the wheel up) That should afford a hemaplegic some support on the "bad
side" reducing balancing problems. Also I am prety sre that as with
sewing machines one can "fix" the pedal for operation by knee pressure.
That might help.
Also: one of the clay mags some time ago had an article on a sort of
wooden block that could be pulled against the lump of clay to center
it...Anyone?
Lili Krakowski
Eydie DeVincenzi on mon 12 feb 01
I see some business opportunities with this idea of one-handed
throwing. As we age and more of us learn how to spell 'osteoarthritis, we
may ALL want to buy a tool that will help us work even on painful days.
Eydie DeVincenzi
I remember saying to people: "once I couldn't SPELL engineer; now I ARE
one." 35 years later, I am saying: "once I couldn't SPELL
osteoarthritis, now I LIVE with it"
----- Original Message -----
From: Lili Krakowski
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Sent: 2/12/01 10:50:51 AM
Subject: Re: One handed throwing
I am not remotely qualified to get into this. But I have
known
hemaplegics. If your student is one, then balance and so on are
involvded
in the solution. I worked with an amputee once--actually she
lost her
forearm through use of forceps at birth-but she could use part of her
upper arm.
Still. Just as my solution for most emotional problems is
CHOCOLATE, my
underlying solution for throwing problems is to stand at the wheel
(raise
the wheel up) That should afford a hemaplegic some support on
the "bad
side" reducing balancing problems. Also I am prety sre that as
with
sewing machines one can "fix" the pedal for operation by knee
pressure.
That might help.
Also: one of the clay mags some time ago had an article on a sort of
wooden block that could be pulled against the lump of clay to center
it...Anyone?
Lili Krakowski
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