mel jacobson on thu 9 nov 00
i sure am no expert. cannot read my own name.
but, many have told me that when viewing a pictographic
calligraphy, or written style, that the brush becomes
a part of the word...so, if you write the word `butterfly`
with a brush, how well you write, your artistic talent, your
flair makes the butterfly that more beautiful.
i wore an apron at the high school for years...had
wonderful kanji on it. kids would say `does that mean
hope, love, eternity`...my answer would be `no, mr. hasagawa
gave me this apron, it says `hasagawa fine beef butcher`.
i have a two hundred year old saki bottle from kyoto, it has a
slip trailed logo on it.
had it read by an old scholar, it reads, `west side saki co.`
sort like bud lite. (or aussies, XXXX)
before i get on the plane for columbus, just want to give
you all permission to write anything you want on your pots.
my suggestion was just study a bit first....make plans, do a
simple layout. the written word becomes a part of your art,
just as glaze, form, color. and it stays for hundreds of years.
mel
one of my loves are the true primitives, writing all over their
pots...seen it in many countries. delightful. it is a part of
their work, their being. it is not contrived. when that happens,
you have a true craft.
FROM MINNETONKA, MINNESOTA, USA
http://www.pclink.com/melpots (website)
Earl Brunner on thu 9 nov 00
Years ago I had a potter friend that was really a mentor. I
looked up to him much more that considered us equals in our
art and clay. He had a very fluid calligraphic design that
he put on his pots. It was sort of an oval with some
squiggles overlapping the bottom right side of the oval. He
put this design on many of his pots. Commenting once that he
thought it was just a naturally balanced and more or less
(in his opinion- which I valued highly) a "perfect" design.
Without really intending to blatantly copy, I began to
incorporate a similar design on my own work.
One day it finally sank in that he wasn't particularly
thrilled with my appropriation of his design. (I was just
trying to emulate the master...)
I asked him why he was upset. He pointed out (what was
entirely obvious to him) that the design was a stylization
of his initials.....
Once he said it, of course it was dead obvious. It was
equally obvious that my initials wouldn't come anywhere
close to the same design....
Boy did I feel stupid.
mel jacobson wrote:
>
> i sure am no expert. cannot read my own name.
> but, many have told me that when viewing a pictographic
> calligraphy, or written style, that the brush becomes
> a part of the word...so, if you write the word `butterfly`
> with a brush, how well you write, your artistic talent, your
> flair makes the butterfly that more beautiful.
>
> i wore an apron at the high school for years...had
> wonderful kanji on it. kids would say `does that mean
> hope, love, eternity`...my answer would be `no, mr. hasagawa
> gave me this apron, it says `hasagawa fine beef butcher`.
>
> i have a two hundred year old saki bottle from kyoto, it has a
> slip trailed logo on it.
>
> had it read by an old scholar, it reads, `west side saki co.`
> sort like bud lite. (or aussies, XXXX)
>
> before i get on the plane for columbus, just want to give
> you all permission to write anything you want on your pots.
> my suggestion was just study a bit first....make plans, do a
> simple layout. the written word becomes a part of your art,
> just as glaze, form, color. and it stays for hundreds of years.
> mel
> one of my loves are the true primitives, writing all over their
> pots...seen it in many countries. delightful. it is a part of
> their work, their being. it is not contrived. when that happens,
> you have a true craft.
>
> FROM MINNETONKA, MINNESOTA, USA
> http://www.pclink.com/melpots (website)
>
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