The Chapel of Art on sat 17 apr 04
Yo! TC! They also lose their sense of humour (presuming they had
any to start with) and turn into pious prigs... A true sign of
fanaticism! The best British example I can think of, is currently
visiting his big buddy in Washington DC... (Only now do I realise
why I have been humming "How much is that doggy in the window?
The one with the waggely tail..." Yes!!! The Poodle is for sale!
LOL :o)
What I really want to know is, when is someone going to start
manufacturing glass bubbles large enough for them to live in?
ANYTHING and EVERTHING on God's Earth can be and is potentially
detrimental to one's health. Someone, somewhere will die if
exposed to a single peanut or a bee sting... This level of
toxicity and allergic reaction is not the product of any ceramic
product or the production thereof... Never has been and never
will be.
OK violent reaction to a single trigger is systemic, but the
accumulative affects of chemicals, minerals, isotopes, rays,
viruses, toxins, moulds, allergens, etc. etc. etc. will vary from
person to person, place to place. Hell... There was the case of
the guy who killed himself by eating carrots... Ate pounds of
them because "carrots are very good for you". Carotene poisoning
is rare, but then so is lead poisoning. Judging from the tenor of
what people have been saying about everything and anything from
glazes to smoking, they would want a "Carrots Kill" label and
licensing of carrot farms, with the Carrot Police out in full
force on Clayart to make sure no one is sneekily eating carrots
under the bedclothes or selling Carrot Moonshine. Outrageous
exaggeration? Well, from where I am, that is exactly what all the
hand-wringing and chest beating looks like!
Reaction to various single or multiple causes by individuals is
naturally more common, but we need to get a grip on reality here.
The severe reactions and the increase in allergies through to
serious conditions, illnesses and diseases (like my own
rheumatoid condition, asthma, food allergies, etc.) is more than
likely due to the cumulative affect of the many different changes
we have made to our environment.
"We" being humankind. Those who make a lot of difference such as
industrialists and exploiters of natural resources such as the
petroleum industry, PLUS the rest of us for allowing them to do
so with impunity. For example, Welsh Water (our water supplier)
is going to add a waste product of the aluminium smelting
industry to our water. Not only that, but they will do so with
the approval of the politicians! This is at a time when aluminium
is a prime suspect in several illnesses, diseases and conditions
from Alzheimer's to breast cancer.
I repeat... This hysteria about the products used in studio
pottery is not doing the potter or the broader community as a
whole any good at all. Note it is being "discussed" and blown out
of all proportion by people who are really only on the fringes of
production and if allowed to continue, they will seriously
prejudice your livelihood and that of all other full-time
potters, TC. It is extremely unwise, not to say unfair of
lawyers, scientists, doctors, teachers, writers, both working and
retried as well as all manner of hobby potters to act in this
way. I really wish someone with more clout would intervene!
Enough already!
We were all born to die, so why are some people suddenly behaving
as though they will be able to not only change the whole of their
own environment, but the way everyone else lives and works too?
Why pick on potters? And to what end? How will the work of
potters, above all other influences affect their chance of
becoming immortal? Seems to me the inner Angst of being alive in
the 21st century is spilling over into Ceramic production!?!?
Either that, or it is something in the water!!?!?!
I repeat: why on earth start on potters and their work? It
beggars belief when industry has poisoned whole continents with
the aid of their political buddies our collusion... Land, sea
and air on and on, right beyond the stratosphere of Planet Earth
and on into space. Leaving their rubbish on the Moon and Mars
too... And don't anyone dare tell TC or any other working potter
that "we have to start somewhere". Go lobby your own government
about curbing transgressors who are actively contributing to
killing the planet on a far larger scale than all the potters of
eternity put together!! Remember Kyoto? Now there is something to
lobby about...
MOST sincerely
Janet Kaiser -- fuming following 266 Spam mails...
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