Joyce Lee on wed 10 may 00
Thanks for the valuable info on flowerpots. This simple request sure
occasioned mucho responses, some very lengthy and detailed, two pages
and more ....... all were appreciated; many chuckles which is always a
plus; and some I dearly, dearly loved... how is it that posts about
flowerpots can touch one's heart? But they did. I think because they
were so open and sincere ... like there was a real person back there
somewhere. It's as if some of you have the gift of living in another's
head ... namely, mine.
Yes, I did see those extruded teapots at NCECA and thought, too, that
they were rather clever but so many were essentially the same shape that
my brain clouded over and quit receiving any good messages that might
have been there ... just the one that flashed, "boring." My fault. Not
the fault of the exhibitors. My receptors just shut down. I heard many
other clayarters, clayarters who know far more than I ever will about
such forms, saying that this was a "must see" event.
As to Dannon's Method. I do the punching and gouging and random marking
and sprigging or impressing and slipping etc to a slab, but then form it
with treated side down on a plate hump mold instead of pressed into
another pot. Impressions stay pretty intact through the
smoothing/compressing/shaping process that I then do on the
outside/bottomside of the plate. When it's ready to be removed from the
mold, I tear the plate form into several pieces and re-assemble them in
more or less random order. I tried forming the random pieces on the mold
itself, but found that they then did lose the marks I'd created when I
had to press them into one another instead of using slip to join. I
always lose the plate function and the edges begin to crumble away in
interesting patterns..... which is okay because I like the happy
accident results better. These make lousy and impractical plates but, if
you'll recall, I don't need any more plates (since you've sent me around
50 of yours)but as wallhangings I like this look very much. However, I'm
the one who scraped up the leavings on my wheel (not original, I know),
glazed them with tenmoku and hung it in my very conventional living
room.... reminds me of Peter Vuolkos, who was one of my first three
heros when I started in pottery.
Joyce
In the Mojave glad that there's room to grow in the desert even for
doddering, old ladies ......
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