jay s. gertz on fri 18 jan 02
William Lucius wrote:
> Ceramic archaeologists have noted that in pedestrian societies (no
canoes or
> trucks) potters consistently live within 5 kilometers of their basic
> resource base (clay, temper and fuel).
I missed that thread about shipping clay, but thought I'd pass on this
bit of interesting clay "trucking" info. that bespeaks the desire of one
artist to create with clay.
On a ceramics tour of Eastern Europe about five years ago, we met a
potter named Annika Tedder (my apologies if I have misspelled her name)
in Tallinn, Estonia. She had a small apartment way out in the suburbs
of Tallinn that she had changed into a little pottery studio. In order
to get clay from town, she had to "bribe" stronger friends to help her
lug it from town, onto a public bus, then cart it from the end of the
bus line to the high rise and up to the top floor. What a haul!
She's a wonderful potter and devoted to her craft...had never been
allowed to leave Estonia by the Soviet authorities to meet other potters
outside her homeland, but was soon to go to Japan for a big
International symposium. If any of you know Annika, wish her well for
me!
jay
jay s. gertz
(jgertz@bulldog.unca.edu)
(828) 251-6627
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