Tim J Havens on fri 15 sep 00
Your condemnation of Picasso not throwing his own pots is also a great
put down of the potters who worked for him . There is a great tradition
in the world of ceramics of potters who traveled around and threw for
different potteries . In a sense they are the backbone of the small
pottery . I'm sure a very large percentage of this " group " employs the
occasional thrower when it fits your needs . I find it astounding that
the very same people find it so easy to put their name on the bottom of
someone elses pot ; claim they did it , like it was their idea and some
potter 3 thousand years ago didn't already make the same thing . Picasso
never did that as far as I know . I've worked for a few potteries where
the " potter " asked me to come up with a new shape because they could
not draw it themselves . Picasso could at least draw , his potters knew
what to make . Years ago I saw a film about Mr. Picasso in which he did a
hundred different sun motifs on plates , single fire ; the potter was
there throwing ( I wish I could have been that potter). It was produced
in a single day . Just try to sit down and - well not draw - make one
hundred different sun motifs, really different ones. Just try it .
I have had the good fortune to work for some really great people and had
some really great times with them; learned alot from them . I did run
into some real bummers , some real bummers . But having Otto as
inspiration I'm looking forward to another 30 or more years - Go Otto go
..
Can we get
back to the romance of making pretty pots - they are all pretty and some
one out there will buy every last one of them , God bless-um.
Alohaz Tim
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