Ian Currie on fri 29 mar 02
> in my opinion, throwing fresh, or loose, or tight is a choice.
>
> there seems to be an idea out there, that if you train your hands
> and mind in discipline, that you cannot be fresh.
> that is silly. at least to me.
Hi Mel
Couldn't agree more. Nice post....
I can still remember my first efforts to make a pinch pot. We all know what
clay wants to do when you pinch it... to become a flat scalloped sheet of
pastry. It takes a while to learn how to "tell" the clay how to become a
pot... to enclose some volume. My first attempt at a bottle on the wheel
turned into a soggy clay gramophone record.
There is not a trade-off between discipline and fresh. It IS a choice, and
it it OUR choice... but only if we have the discipline. Otherwise the clay
has ITS way... Instead of us expressing ourselves through the medium... the
medium uses our energy to express itself through us... to make pie crusts
and clay LPs.
And I sure agree with Richard:
> When I taught
> (briefly) at a college, there was a sign hanging up high when I came into
> the studio for the first time..."Treat every pot as though it were the last
> one you'll ever make..."
> First thing I did at that college was to get a ladder and take that sign
> down and throw it in the trash.
I'm currently having a pleasant veg-out at Craig and Linda's place in
Oregon...
Ian
http://ian.currie.to
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