Lee Love on wed 16 jul 03
The Pot throws The Potter. ; was: Son of Glaze Quest
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> All this talk on merchandising is essential.
I try to follow these guidelines (as found at my webpage
http://Mashiko.org ) I think the line under honesty is important:
Three Shaker Guidelines:
Industry:
"Do all your work as if you had a thousand years to live
and as if you were to die tomorrow."
Honesty:
"Be what we seem to be; and seem to be what we really are;
don't carry two faces."
Functionalism:
"That which in itself has the highest use possesses the greatest
beauty."
> Art vs Craft
Is nonsense. Art is the highest expression of any endevor. It really
isn't up to me to decide if what I am making is art or not. Craft is the skill
with which you make the work.
> -- I liked Leech's remark "I think of myself as a person who makes things."
> rather Zen and complete.
I agree with Leach. My twist on this is: "I am the person that is
made by the things I make." :^) This comes from Dogen Zenji's Genjo Koan:
"To study the way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.
To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things. When actualized by
myriad things, your body and mind as well as the bodies and minds of others drop
away. No trace of realization remains, and this no-trace continues endlessly."
You can read more about the Genjo Koan here:
http://www.sfzc.com/Pages/Library/genjokoa.html
and
http://www.alaska.net/~zen/lecture.html
~~~~~~~Lee In Mashiko, Japan http://Mashiko.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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* Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the *
* full current of human life. *
~~~~~~~~~~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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