Llewellyn Kouba on wed 13 nov 02
I try to keep my studio environment as clean and safe as possible. Like
most potters I am sure I will ingest an amount of silica over a period of
time. I have a retired friend who lives next door to me who used to be in
food service in Saudi Arabia and he has a large photo on the wall of 'his'
potter. The man is shown living in a cave, sleeping in a niche in the wall
and appeared to be an old man. This potter lived in his studio -unless it
was more damp that usual one does wonder how some people seem to be exposed
to clay dust in the extreme and still get old. Of course I have no first
hand look at how the mans health was. My friend said he appeared healthy
and surely we recognize too that this is only a single case study and I
would not advocate anyone to 'live' in his or her own studio except for all
the hours we do spend.
Llewellyn
Lily Krakowski on wed 13 nov 02
when I first lived in Brazil--1957-- I commented to my sister-in-law one dau
that i thought it so lovely that I saw so many grandmothers taking their
grandkids for outings....She looked at me with a troubled, puzzled look and
said: "Those old women are the mothers....Most of them are probably younger
than you..." I was 26 at the time....
Llewellyn Kouba writes:
> I try to keep my studio environment as clean and safe as possible. Like
> most potters I am sure I will ingest an amount of silica over a period of
> time. I have a retired friend who lives next door to me who used to be in
> food service in Saudi Arabia and he has a large photo on the wall of 'his'
> potter. The man is shown living in a cave, sleeping in a niche in the
> wall
> and appeared to be an old man. This potter lived in his studio -unless it
> was more damp that usual one does wonder how some people seem to be
> exposed
> to clay dust in the extreme and still get old. Of course I have no first
> hand look at how the mans health was. My friend said he appeared healthy
> and surely we recognize too that this is only a single case study and I
> would not advocate anyone to 'live' in his or her own studio except for
> all
> the hours we do spend.
>
> Llewellyn
>
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