pdp1@EARTHLINK.NET on fri 3 oct 03
More fun with Lee...
Hi Lee,
Just for fun, here's a paraphrase of your Rawson quote...
"Even though axioms must be based on an experience of
some kind,
if it is good experience it always eludes the tyranny of its
derived axiom's abuse."
But too, to review the actual quote:
"Even though pottery must be based on a
technology of some kind, if it is good pottery it always
eludes the tyranny of its
technology."
Now just what is supposed to be the 'tyranny of it's
technology' here Lee?
Having a 'Wheel' to throw one's Work on?
Having left some 'throwing-marks' on something? Having a
'Rib' to smoothe 'em out with?
Having a way to do it?
What is meant here by the term 'technology'? Having mixed
some 'Glazes' ? ~ having a Wheel? ~ and having a Kiln to
fire the damned things in?
What?
Tyranny to whom?
(Now please bear in mind I am chuckleing here and brimming
with good humor and so on, and, this is not 'serious' or
heavy or anything...as ever...okay? Anyway...)
This makes a whole lot of not much if not 'no' sense to me.
Who the hell is this 'Rawson' guy anyway?
And Jeeeeeze, where Do you keep finding all these 'quotes'
from? (Well, Rawson's Book I suppose...which you did
reference afterall... )
Maybe the tyranny old Rawlins or Rawson or
whateverhisnameis, is worried on, is one of not
knowing how to 'think' about Pots in the first place? In
order for the Wheel and the Glazes and the Kiln or a 'Rib'
or whatever else one may resort to, to get on with the
damned things getting MADE.
Encumberances and liabilities as then make one
so subordinate and limited and uncomfortable and imposed
upon and long-suffering and sorry about it all and so on and
lamenting therebye?
Or one might just regurgitate the 'Clay' for having eaten
it, as some Wasps are known to do, and make some sort of
Pots by some delicate deposition from one's lips? And thence
'Varnish' them as Bees might with one's propolis or what?
But even then! Is there not something to be worried about so
far as 'technology' in some insidious way?
There's allways 'pinch-pots' too for that matter, whose
tyranny might just be no less insidious, inimical, sneaky,
threatening, or dangerous to the naive or the unwary!
Oh-oh!
Watch out!
Yikes!
And too...lest we forget...
"Inchme and Pinchme had went for a walk...Inchme got lost ~
Who was left?"
(No Lee, it is not 'Inchme'...guess again! )
Phil
(still more-or-less in good humor and still in god forsaken
but guh-lad it is Autumn, Laaaaaaaaaaaaas Vegas)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Love"
(Sniperoo...then,)
> I'll share a Philp Rawson quote:
> "Even though pottery must be based on a technology of
some kind,
> if it is good pottery it always eludes the tyranny of its
technology."
> Philp Rawson, Ceramics page 3.
> This is the first thing I "blue lined" in this book.
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