Ray Carlton on thu 27 may 99
I feel that i should add my bit to this thread as it seems some people are
getting a little hot under the collar......We must keep in mind that as
artists we are like sponges and pick up bits of info from all over the
place that fuel the creative fire that burns inside us...the idea for a new
piece may be the combination of seeing someone elses pot, a display of
autumn leaves, the stones on a beach, the color of the sky all seen on a 5
minute walk down the street and something else intangible from inside will
suddenly put all these disparate bits into an idea or suddenly attach
themselves to another already half formed idea...and viola a new work of
your own art will appear....to try and protect the things we make is going
to put our focus on trying to save our work from being a part of somebody
elses creative process....not on the core business of producing good
art....i have published my glazes here and i have my work displayed on the
web and sure, they may have been taken and used by others in their own
work....so what....i defy any body on this list to recreate anything that i
have displayed on my web site you may probably get the form close but the
glaze?? i dont think so....surely that is the point that our kilns,
materials, clay bodies, firing schedules are all unique and i feel that
most art ceramic could not be easily recreated.....the amount of research
and knowledge of the process are beyond the scope of most
potters.....anybody who involves themselves in that type of work are most
likely to be attempting to recreate the masterpieces made in ancient
times...the two reasons for doing that would be as a research project for
publication or as criminal pursuit to make fake sung bowls or whatever to
sell to unwitting collectors for big bucks...lets not take ourselves too
seriously........
cheers Ray Carlton
McMahons Creek Victoria Australia
tgschs10 on sat 29 may 99
I attended a workshop a few years ago and the presenter made the point that
almost everything has been done before by someone else in ceramics and then
made the statement that "we are as original as our sources are remote". I've
stolden this line and use it all the time.
Tom Sawyer
-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Carlton
To: CLAYART@LSV.UKY.EDU
Date: Thursday, May 27, 1999 10:53 PM
Subject: Re: Copyright on the Web. a bit long
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I feel that i should add my bit to this thread as it seems some people are
getting a little hot under the collar......We must keep in mind that as
artists we are like sponges and pick up bits of info from all over the
place that fuel the creative fire that burns inside us...the idea for a new
piece may be the combination of seeing someone elses pot, a display of
autumn leaves, the stones on a beach, the color of the sky all seen on a 5
minute walk down the street and something else intangible from inside will
suddenly put all these disparate bits into an idea or suddenly attach
themselves to another already half formed idea...and viola a new work of
your own art will appear....to try and protect the things we make is going
to put our focus on trying to save our work from being a part of somebody
elses creative process....not on the core business of producing good
art....i have published my glazes here and i have my work displayed on the
web and sure, they may have been taken and used by others in their own
work....so what....i defy any body on this list to recreate anything that i
have displayed on my web site you may probably get the form close but the
glaze?? i dont think so....surely that is the point that our kilns,
materials, clay bodies, firing schedules are all unique and i feel that
most art ceramic could not be easily recreated.....the amount of research
and knowledge of the process are beyond the scope of most
potters.....anybody who involves themselves in that type of work are most
likely to be attempting to recreate the masterpieces made in ancient
times...the two reasons for doing that would be as a research project for
publication or as criminal pursuit to make fake sung bowls or whatever to
sell to unwitting collectors for big bucks...lets not take ourselves too
seriously........
cheers Ray Carlton
McMahons Creek Victoria Australia
John Britt on mon 31 may 99
Tom,
I remember it as:
"Creativity is the obscurity of your source".
--
Thanks,
John Britt claydude@unicomp.net
Dys-Functional Pottery
Dallas, Texas
http://www.dysfunctionalpottery.com/claydude
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