Marcia Selsor on thu 26 oct 00
I liked Karen's description of Cornelius' work. I watched Ruthanne
Tudball last summer in Italy. She assembles a teapot in one sitting-wet.
Really amazing to watch. I always admired her loose forms and finally
got to see how she doew that. Her more recent "dancers" are graceful
cynlinders faceted, leaning, gestural with a flowing handle that moves
like Isadora Duncan's scarves!
Beautiful work. I would have to call Ruthanne one of the world's
greatest potters.
Marcia
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with Cornelius, who works with clay in
> a wet/plastic state...He makes a 5 minute teapot, thrown, assembled,
> finished. Awe inspiring, but more significantly a point of view about how
> you want the clay to respond. You will get a trail of the makers hand. NOT
> CARVED but formed, pushed, the clay is so soft that it is obvious there was
> an individual at the helm. Byron Temple talks about leaving marks that show
> the act of making...
> If you can make clay look like ANY material that exists, then one needs to
> take an aesthetic stand on your process and the material.
> Given your choices about material, firing range, those are the big ones, how
> one works...there is a specific vocabulary that is a trail of your process.
>
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> bamboo karen
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