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: form vs glaze #3. design inspirations

updated wed 28 mar 01

 

iandol on mon 26 mar 01


Dear Joyce,
Thank you for the commercial!!
I think your life is so full of activity that something has to be put on =
the back burner to cook very, very slowly. One day you will be able to =
come back to those ideas and renew your inspiration.
Here is a way to consider form and finish. Go out into the desert and =
collect a handful of dead snail shells, if possible the ones with light =
and dark markings. Touch them. Feel them. Trace their markings with =
your finger tips. Then start to accept those which please and reject =
those which displease. When you have two heaps think about what you have =
done.
What was the criteria which informed your judgement and enabled you to =
make such a discrimination?
If you can articulate that concept you have something original to both =
make and to say. Do this and you become an Artist.
Best regards,
Ivor.
Ps. Thank you for your work as Moderator.