Janet & Michael Francoeur Carolina Creations on fri 27 jun 03
From a strictly business/sales standpoint having owned a gallery for 13 =
years and been a potter (tilemaker) for the past 6 years I will say that =
if you have 2 pots that are otherwise equal in beauty a customer that is =
not familiar with either potter will buy the one with the most =
information on the bottom every time.
Thank you
Janet Francoeur
Carolina Creations
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Lee Love on sat 28 jun 03
----- Original Message -----
From: "Janet & Michael Francoeur Carolina Creations"
> I will say that if you have 2 pots that are otherwise equal in beauty a
customer that
>is not familiar with either potter will buy the one with the most information
on the
>bottom every time.
I hope so. Gives us a better chance at snapping up the unsigned Hamadas. ;^)
~~~~~~~Lee In Mashiko, Japan http://hachiko.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Stephen on fri 19 dec 03
I could not find the origional post concerning the rescent posts on
stamping and signing, so I went to the archives and send this reply to one
from past posts but also to the subject in general. I tell poeple that i
started making pottery when I was 14. Sinse I started with my father I did
what he did I signed on the bottom. He had his Masters in painting and
signed his pots like his paintings. I took this to extreems and sometimes
scrawled boldly over the entire bottom. then I decided on my own that I
wanted to leave my pots alone let them speak for themselves. I felt this
way also about my paintings, good or bad. I sign the backs as a record.
Sinse the are two dementional, I see the backs as not a part of the
painting. Pots are different. I did not want someone reading my name every
time they used their cup for coffee or whatever. I also wanted to be free
from this step in the process of making and free from the requesite
implications of the maker. Though i can not say I am unfamiliar with the
concept of the Unknown craftsman it would bwe presumptuous to say that that
was my reason. My reasons were personal, were part of the over all process
of becoming. I did not sign for 5 years. Then for personal reasons I moved
to stamping, and I aproched stamping in a kind of odd way. I got tired of
having to explain my motives and i had at least a glimps of the virtues of
annonimity and detatchment. If I choose to change my methods in the future
the reasons again will be personal. sinse it is my action alone, I see
myself free to do as I please. Anyone else is free to think as they please
with regard to whether I sign or stamp or not.
Stephen
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