David Hendley on fri 22 mar 02
Ok, you old-time mathematicians, this is not about THAT
kind of side rule.
I have to agree with Becky about the straightjacket approach
to making slides of ceramic art. With our slides, we are all a bunch
of lemmings dutifully following order from on high, hoping we
will be initiated into the secret society of acceptable artists.
The "bad slides" of pots out in tall grasses or sitting on boulders
are really just left-overs from what was considered "good slides"
25 years ago.
In another 25 years we, will likely be laughing at those damn
variegated backgrounds that go from impossibly white to
impossibility black in the course of 2 feet.
Who know what the next trend will be. We might all be wanting
to borrow Dales's hogs to include in our shots.
David Hendley
Maydelle, Texas
hendley@tyler.net
http://www.farmpots.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "becky schroeder"
To:
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 10:57 PM
Subject: Re: Juried Slides. Pick Me!
> i'm ssssoooooooooooo confused. what i learned from the nceca slide
critique
> that russell helped organize (my new hero) was that the fad of the moment
> was to have your pots shot against a gray background that at the bottom is
> light gray fading into dark gray at the top of the slide. this sure seems
> like a very straightjacketed approach to me. sort of like the old rule
that
> you don't wear white shoes before memorial day or that you must wear loud
> guady pink flowered capris to any event in conneticut before 4pm in the
> summer season.
>
> what worries me is: will they give us plenty of warning when they change
> the rules or do we have to suffer the humiliation of presenting slides
with
> hogs in them before we are clued into the new rules?
>
> becky schroeder
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