Karen Sullivan on sat 30 mar 02
So Joyce...
Since I am guilty for bringing up the issue of gesture...
let me talk about what it means to me....
I throw directly on the wheel head and cut the piece off
then pick it off while still wet...
That gives some potential for a trail of movement or gesture of
my hand...
Next step is to throw a cylinder....give it a tug towards me....
yank if you will...
THEN cut it off the wheel...no longer a straight line, but a
curve and if I am lucky...an uneven curve.
I instantly get movement...a gesture or liveliness...
I have a cup that looks like one of the brooms in the Disney
movie...Fantasia...the brooms that were swinging buckets with
the magician Mickey....
Gesture is a path...
So by looking at uneven pots...the process feeds on itself as
a direction...I ask how I can play with a line to make it more
interesting....so when smoothing a rim with a rib...I slow down the
wheel and move the rib with an uneven rhythm....so the rim dances in
a way that shows gesture.
I think about how the brain recognizes form...and for a purely functional
reason that allows us to rationalize the world we learn to accept
geometric form and it's uses...so functionally when we see a circular form
we accept its function as a bowl...a coin...the brain moves on to grapple
with other details...
So...to engage the brain...make some small variation in the form so that
the process of evaluating it's form takes some effort.
I guess I use that theory to compose form...a line is never a perfect
straight line...
A different path is all...
And Joyce...your question has coaxed me out of my cave....
bamboo karen...going back in now....happy easter
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