Edouard Bastarache on fri 25 apr 03
Hello Lilly,
Since you appreciated so much Smart's text in french,
I have decided to translate it to my kind of English for
the benefit of the potters of Anglophonia, including
those of The Old Europe (dixit Rumsfeld).
Needless to say that Smart is an expert in the toxicology
of glazes, being a member of the Common Market's
committee on the safety of glazes.
Now bedtime for me,
"Let us think "Ceramics" only, and drop the dangerous practice
of this antiquated art...
Let us make glazes without potassium and sodium (without forgetting
spodumene which is one damn phenomenon....), we will thus avoid
the need to write long articles on the toxicology and technology of
these damn ingredients bad for our body.
One should also remove silica (hazard of silicosis and respiratory
complications) as well as alumina for a reason already addressed on
Clayart of which I do not remember any more...
Without forgetting lead (toxic) and barium (toxic). I trust the elites of
science to discover just as distressing tares for calcium, strontium,
magnesium and boron, without speaking of zinc!!!
It is also necessary to remove kilns and their hazards (fire, fibres, burns,
pollution, etc...) and clays which contain fossil dioxins...
Approximately to simplify, one could all remove ceramics while preserving
its immaterial side... I mean to say the beautiful articles in the
newspapers
speaking in praise of the radiant and hyper-gifted personalities of this
art,
without forgetting to quote their patrons and their friends of the high
society
without whom they would never have left the shade...
Why bother with all these ancient materials (terrestrial minerals, you
realize?
we are in 2003...) to devote ourself to this art so spiritual and full of
transcendantal
values... Only the reading of a name or the sight of a photograph on glazed
paper in a "connected" magazine should amply be enough to convince.
Virtuality it is cleaner and less dirtying than clay.
Cordially, Smart.
Smart.Conseil
Le site Français dédié aux passionnés de céramique
El sitio Francés dedicó a amantes de cerámica
The French site dedicated to ceramics lovers
smart2000@wanadoo.fr
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/smart2000/
(Langue Française par défaut : Tutoiement à la "Québécoise")"
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