becky schroeder on thu 6 sep 01
elizabeth
thankyou for your post. i am sending it on to my almost 22 year old art
major son who never sees the world before 2 pm and is the worse for the
wear.
becky schroeder
>
>If you say that you cannot work in the morning, you
>need to learn discipline and structure. When you get
>out in the world, you will not be able to be nocturnal
>anymore, so you might as well try and function
>according to daylight. (People in galleries and
>museums keep fairly regular daylight hours, so do
>clients)
>
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elizabeth priddy on thu 6 sep 01
this is not off topic, by the way, this is very
relevant to ceramic education...
you say they close the studio at midnight, you can't
effectively make them rescind the policy, and you
cannot afford to work off campus.
If I have got the problem correctly, I can only come
up with one solution. It is not facetious, and I am
not being sarcastic.
Ask if they will open the studio early, before classes
start, and they probably will, as the riff-raff will
not be there then. But you will be.
Work during the day. I was in design school for about
two semesters until I realized that the night owls did
not make the best work. Sometimes the most caffein
crazed and spontaneous, but not the best. And the
studio will probably be mostly empty when it first
opens.
If you say that you cannot work in the morning, you
need to learn discipline and structure. When you get
out in the world, you will not be able to be nocturnal
anymore, so you might as well try and function
according to daylight. (People in galleries and
museums keep fairly regular daylight hours, so do
clients)
I used to think, "I only really get inspired to work
late at night". Well, what was really going on was
that I was too distracted by friends, tv, night life,
procrastination and other such truck to get to work
until midnight. When I graduated and got out away
from campus life, I found that I am a 6 am morning
person, that I have shot my wad by 3 pm, and am ready
to veg until the next day. The best way for me to
work is to be alone and in the morning. But in
school, I didn't wake up til 3 many days.
And all of that comraderie and inspiration you are
getting from your peers...find your inspiration within
yourself, as inspiration from peers is frequently
copying and limiting to you creatively. Anything and
everything you are seeing is getting translated into
your work, and this is a very good thing. The trick
is to be alone long enough with that same work,
without outside criticism, for YOU to edit it into
your own creation.
i hope this helps
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Elizabeth Priddy
epriddyclay@yahoo.com
www.angelfire.com/nc/clayworkshop
252-504-2622
PO Box 2342
Beaufort, NC 28516
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vince pitelka on fri 7 sep 01
> >If you say that you cannot work in the morning, you
> >need to learn discipline and structure. When you get
> >out in the world, you will not be able to be nocturnal
> >anymore, so you might as well try and function
> >according to daylight. (People in galleries and
> >museums keep fairly regular daylight hours, so do
> >clients)
Elizabeth -
Amen and hip-hip-hooray to this. As a studio potter, I always did my best
work between 7:00 AM and 1:00 PM, and eventually I just settled into a
schedule where I would work straight through until 1:00, stop for a lunch
break, go for a ride on my mountain bike up on the logging roads, and then
put another four hours of less demanding work. I always reserved the most
demanding work for that six hours between 7:00 and 1:00.
Best wishes -
- Vince
Vince Pitelka
Appalachian Center for Crafts
Tennessee Technological University
1560 Craft Center Drive, Smithville TN 37166
Home - vpitelka@dtccom.net
615/597-5376
Work - wpitelka@tntech.edu
615/597-6801 ext. 111, fax 615/597-6803
http://www.craftcenter.tntech.edu/
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