Eleanora Eden on sun 26 oct 03
I'm totally with Vince on this one.....Vince, well-put. When I try to
think about earliest pots several lovely recollections come to
mind........in high school ( I was the apple in the art teachers' eyes and
a special display of all my clay stuff was put in one of those hall glass
cases.......mostly these boaty type things on legs and I probably only
remember because my mom kept one........but mostly I recall that I was a
creative writing major when I was flunking out of English and getting into
pots at UC Berkeley and my first series of serious pots were handbuilt
with poetry incised all over. They were wonderful first efforts.
Eleanora
At 06:55 PM 10/24/03 -0500, you wrote:
>If you really think about it, the idea of being embarassed by your early
>work is very strange, and exactly opposite the way you should feel about it.
>The work you have done over your time in clay simply represents your journey
>to get to where you are now, and the fact that some of your earlier work
>looks awkward or primitive to you now is strong evidence of the distance you
>have come, and that is to your credit. Why not celebrate that, instead of
>being embarassed. I am really surprised that anyone would respond that way.
>Someone, somewhere, liked your work enough to either buy it, or to be very
>pleased with it when it was given as a gift. And now you wish it wasn't out
>there? What is that all about? I have been following this thread, and
>frankly I am startled by all the people whose early work embarasses them.
>Advancing proficiency should breed confidence and pride, and as I said, your
>early work provides the context for comparison that makes your present work
>stand out.
>
>Your early work is what got you where you are today. Celebrate it, and
>celebrate the people that still enjoy it. There's no gain or reason in
>doing otherwise.
>Best wishes -
>- Vince
>
>Vince Pitelka
>Appalachian Center for Craft
>Tennessee Technological University
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