Susan Fox Hirschmann on tue 23 mar 99
In a message dated 3/22/99 4:41:53 PM EST, billwms@fn.net writes:
<< PS : I have been thinking. What is it about pottery that keeps us there?
It is
the one field of art probable most prone to disaster and failure. Yet, we
stick. Six months work could literally "go up in smoke". Yet, we love it
and
won't leave it. hmmm. >
It is a certain enviable addiction, I think ,to linking with the creative
spirit.
The joys of working in clay defy expression----for when one works with clay
one links up with his or her higher self.
Some of you will indeed laugh at the metaphysics.
But for many of us, this is how it is.
None of us try and think about the disasters---tho they guide us, hopefully in
our future decisions. Pottery then becomes about "being here now"---and the
growth that comes with maturing in clay, learning from all life's experiences.
And it is those individual experiences that translate into the work. as each
piece that we do, really is a deeper expression of who we are.
'enuf philosopy.
susan, feeling the rapture of porcelain
susan fox hirschmann
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