Ron Roy on wed 5 dec 01
Hi Paula,
I say well said - and welcome your attitude.
RR
>I think it's pretty usual in my particular place and time to joke about the
>type of stuff you love. doesn't make you stop believing passionately in it.
>I understand the fear that the kind of work you love and believe in might
>become sidelined to a point of extinction, or that the chance to make work
>that is meaningful to you and into which you have made significant time and
>money investments will cease to be economically viable or enjoyed by others.
>It does strike me that the fear of ever decreasing opportunities is fairly
>rampant in all sectors of the community in the present moment. For me humour
>helps to allieviate the deeper stresses like - will i be able to stay
>afloat? which way is the wind blowing? am i going to be in trouble if i
>continue to invest in this path? - Its a kind of bravado almost.
>
>Anyway, I don't think smiling and caring deeply or respectfully about things
>are opposites, I think they are of neccessity friends and i very much enjoy
>the combination of these elements in your posts.
Ron Roy
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Paula Moros on thu 6 dec 01
Dear Snail,
very much enjoyed the lumpen brown sculpture tag in your recent post. (
getting the digest - from yesterday?) Went to visit some friends who run a
small jewellery /faming shop / craft gallery last weekend and bought some
things. They asked what my favourite colour was so they could gift wrap it,
and i thought -it's gotta be brown. and as expected brown was a funny answer
and there wasn't any chocolate, tan-breaking-to-mandarin or wood fire /shino
coloured paper available and so we decided its better to wrap in blue
because there was some and also because 'people like blue' and 'blue sells.'
Ho ho ho! A good laugh all round. The shiny blue wrapping looked fantastic.
I think it's pretty usual in my particular place and time to joke about the
type of stuff you love. doesn't make you stop believing passionately in it.
I understand the fear that the kind of work you love and believe in might
become sidelined to a point of extinction, or that the chance to make work
that is meaningful to you and into which you have made significant time and
money investments will cease to be economically viable or enjoyed by others.
It does strike me that the fear of ever decreasing opportunities is fairly
rampant in all sectors of the community in the present moment. For me humour
helps to allieviate the deeper stresses like - will i be able to stay
afloat? which way is the wind blowing? am i going to be in trouble if i
continue to invest in this path? - Its a kind of bravado almost.
Anyway, I don't think smiling and caring deeply or respectfully about things
are opposites, I think they are of neccessity friends and i very much enjoy
the combination of these elements in your posts.
Regards,
Paula
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