Joyce Lee on wed 23 may 01
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I always like looking at your work and your web sites, Rick, so the trip =
through your pots was worth the time... as usual.
However, clicking on the tan vase.... which presumably would lead to the =
slide show ... didn't work for me ... simply supplied message that the =
page had been removed, or had some other deficit which prevented my =
seeing it.
Did I miss them or do you no longer throw your magnificent, very large =
upside down pots? The ones where you suspend the bat upside down, with =
clay attached, between two chair backs... at least, that's how I would =
up attempting them when I blatantly copied your style ...... still have =
one that I threw early on ... doesn't look like yours, but sure is tall. =
It IS true, isn't it, that if one can't throw a good pot, then throwing =
a very tall pot makes up for it... right?
Joyce
In the Mojave still readying trays, tray baskets, and lidded jars for =
attachment of cane handles ... don't think I'd work so slowly if I =
didn't keep distracting myself ... setting up big Bailey extruder today =
to see what forms might reasonably accept the rattan.... ... and working =
on lots of tiles since Janet's last words about the Path ... scrapped =
the artsier looks.... goin' for desert representation ... wishin' Paul =
Lewing lived next door ... can't say my old age isn't meaningful ... =
even if it isn't as graceful as I'd hoped.....
Dannon Rhudy on wed 23 may 01
Joyce said:
... that's how I .... attempting them when I blatantly copied your style
..... sure is tall. It IS true, isn't it, that if one can't throw a good
pot, then throwing a very tall pot makes up for it... right?.....
Yes, Joyce, it is true: very tall pots do not have to be good.
I'm glad to note that you understand that so clearly. Tallness
is it's own reward. The other truth is that 40" platters do
not have to be good, either. Width is everything.
Pardon me joshing on this - I know you were teasing.
One time I was watching Don
Reitz jury an exhibition, and perhaps because some of his
own work is quite large, numerous large pieces had been
submitted for the show. As he was going through the slides,
he remarked "people need to understand that when you make
large scale pieces, EVERY detail and design flaw shows.
So big ugly is a lot easier to see than small ugly". I'd
not thought of that before, but I always remember it now.
regards
Dannon Rhudy
Dannon Rhudy on thu 24 may 01
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>This is so good (true) that I may change my signature file......
Glad if I made you smile. Reitz is a jewel, it seems to me.
Never has time for anything but directness. - Dannon
>"Big ugly is a lot easier to see than small ugly." Don Reitz
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Wesley C. Rolley on thu 24 may 01
>So big ugly is a lot easier to see than small ugly".
Dannon,
This is so good (true) that I may change my signature file.
Wes
"Big ugly is a lot easier to see than small ugly." Don Reitz
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