Dave Finkelnburg on sun 11 feb 01
Hi Joyce!
I have always thought of a signature on any work of art or craft as a
trademark, a mark of identification. To be such, it simply needs to be
unique. The whole point is to allow buyers, future owners, etc to be able
to identify the maker.
I can sign pots with my last name because there are few Finkelnburgs,
and to my knowledge I am the only Finkelnburg on the planet throwing pots.
However, if my name were Bill Smith or Jenny Jones, I might be looking for
something much different than my name to use to mark my pots, or else
forming the name in such a fashion as to make it unique from all the other
Bill's or Smith's or.....
Now, if my name were Smith or Jones and some day I achieved the status
of a Salvador Dali or Pablo Picasso, then perhaps I could get away with
marking pots with that last name, because the world would know I was THE
Smith, etc.
In the meantime, to my way of thinking, an effective signature is unique
and doesn't leave one wondering, is the Joyce who made this pot the one in
the Mojave, or the one in Florida, or one of the seven I knew in grade
school, or.....
Glad to hear you are cleaning up the environment! :-)
Dave Finkelnburg, in Idaho, where fresh snow covers the litter for
one more day
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