priddy on sat 20 may 00
Earl Brunner wrote:
I don't have
> a problem with your factory work. I never said that you
> misrepresented it either. I did say that potters do buy
> from you and do misrepresent THEIR work. And I said that
> you for good or bad, right or wrong, are perceived by some
> people as being partly to blame. =
The ones out there misrepresenting are the studio potters ashamed =
of their process growing out of their individual control and trying =
to "cover" by using industrial process and then hiding it because of =
some bizarre need to have done every bit of it themselves-while their
digital controller idles ready to fire for them...
There are also unscrupulous vendors who mark their work blatantly =
inaccurately and pass it off as something it is not. These guys =
are losers and their bad karma will eventually bite them in the...
The studio potters who can't deal with the reality of their own =
situation are the saddest for me, personally. They have so much =
emotional energy invested in their persona, that they have a hard =
time growing with and accepting the technology. Pottery was never =
meant to be a one-man operation! Leach himself worked in a factory =
environment! Explore the history of pottery and only in this =
glorious century and largely in America proper do potters work =
alone and are expected to. This is just bizarre.
Journeymen potters have always, as far back as there have been
potters with skills but no equipment or shop, worked for other =
potters making their work until they earned enough money to set up
shop for themselves and hire journeymen to do the work they no =
longer choose to. =
The "factory work" is just a modern version of this in an age when
it is more affordable to have the resources pooled in one place and =
the journeymen working as a collective. In the past and still, the =
journeymen travelled and threw or cast whatever the potter paying them =
wanted. Blame the low cost of shipping and fuel, not the clay workers!
And no-one ascribed credit for this either. This is just a very =
specific version of the problem studio potters have with production =
and volume. The studio potter rarely understands the position =
and point of the production potter. it is a different world, with =
more realistic, less intellectually romanticised standards and =
practices.
Realistic is not always the positive term either. We need Visionary =
potters to balance the realistic ones. They always were out there as =
well. They were called gentlemen who fancied clay, though. Potter was =
reserved for people who made pots for their living. Maybe that =
distinction ought to be re-instated, in honor of having words mean things=
=2E
respectfully submitted,
elizabeth priddy
priddy-clay@usa.net
http:www.angelfire.com/nc/clayworkshop
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