Gary Navarre on thu 12 may 05
Hay Crew,
Well I'm gonna need to study up more on them digital cameras so I can
get better close up shots of rocks and pots. I'm not liking some of the
shots in the last Advantix roll. The flash gets in the way in shots in
the sun as in these of some rocks I'm fixin to crush up and put on pots
to see what happens. http://public.fotki.com/GindaUP/glzrks/ While
talking with Peter about a rock we have that has light blue green
coloring in bands, he said it is a quartzite from a Precambrian sea
shore that had nickel in it and was metamorphosed when the continents
collided up here.
I also found some Hanaville shale that has many colors between it's
layers. Some are a silvery gray, red, brown, and lustrous black. Along
with those I found a hardness 5-6 iron yellowish stone that looked like
a mud stone only harder. Last week I came across a small pile of reddish
brown completely decomposed stone powder just sitting there as in
somebody poured it on the spot. I had asked permission from the boss of
Norway's City Maintenance crew if I could look for stones in their
gravel pit/dumping area and found lots of rocks for the kiln foundation
and also found decomposing stones here and there.
When I was early in clay I'd hear people tell me "Why don't you just get
a good job and do that in your spare time?" I used to just hate it, and
the bit about starving artists and Vincent selling only one painting,
blah-blah-blah-blah-blah... Ya know, I've never "starved" and I been
selling off and on since I was 16. I'm at an age now where I no longer
think about any particular medium for my creative powers. In fact most
of my work is with words, probably the most plastic impermanent yet rich
medium we have. I get a kick out of talking images to people I meet
along the way and it makes my day when they smile or laugh. Oh, about
doing clay in my spare time, I came to the conclusion the only spare
time we get is between breaths.
Stay in there!
G in Da UP
Navarre Pottery
Navarre Enterprises
Norway, Michigan, USA
http://public.fotki.com/GindaUP/
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