Gary Navarre on wed 25 may 05
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Subject: Re: ClayCraft Moved My Glaze Work Station
From: gnavarre@uplogon.com
Date: Wed, May 25, 2005 12:52 am
To: ClayCraft@googlegroups.com
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Sorry to hear about Warren's condition. Saturday the 14th. I went in for
the Social Security Disability physical with their doctor centering on a
COPD test which I failed with flying colors, coughing after every blow on
the machine even after the Albuteral. It started in high school. When we
made clay we would all go to the back of the Art room and hammer the dry
chunks of clay from unfired projects and bags of dryed clay before dumping
into water to soften. We left quite a cloud of dust in the air. Shortly
after I started in with tobacco smoking. We also would do silver soldering
on blocks of asbestos. While at Wayne State University I spent a summer
working at Great Lakes Steel's Zug Island in their coke ovens. (No, they
did not cook cocaine into crack.) After I got back to Detroit from the Pot
Shop in Venice I would sleep in the basement clay mixing room of a shared
studio on the corner of 7 Mile and Mack ave. for a few months. I've had
jobs in paper mills, print shops, scrap yards as a torch cutter (cutting
galvanized sucks), spent 7 years in an aluminum extrusion/anodizing plant,
did a bunch of interior demolition and
drywalling hear and there, and had a few collage and private studios with
questionable air quality control. Did I leave out the plastic plant and
..... Oh, ya, wood firing and "smoking". Managed to quit for two months
this year but, alas, still light up a bit.
Pollution is rampant today and I feel for people who have to live in the
big citys. I'm greatfull to live in the clean air of Michigan's Upper
Peninsula but my damage is done and will probably take me out some day,
until then I plan to set up this new studio with some alternative
methods of limiting the clay dust in the house. Probably have to mix clay
outside in the summer and bring small amounts inside. Can't let trimmings
accumulate at all and will learn the wet mixing technique for glazes. My
hope is the youngsters will listen to the old-timers and learn from the
voices of experience.
Oh, ya, the physical! The doctor asked me, "How far can you walk before
becoming winded?" I replied, "Oh, I don't know, maybe a couple hundred
yards." I didn't think to ask him if he meant up hill or down?, was I
carrying a few bundles of brush?, and how fast did he want me to do it. I
can amble along all day long just don't expect me to get there at any
particular time. Don't do "Real quick." anymore.
Enough of my yammering, got too much sun again at Wally's and need to
rest for my 2 days off. Think I'll work on the kiln and hunt Morels tomorrow.
Stay in there!
On Tue, May 24, 2005 4:52 am, Lee Love said:
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> Since hearing about MacKenzie's silicosis, I have tried to think about
ways to help eliminate dust in the studio. I decided to move the glaze
materials and scale mixing area out of the studio and into the more open
kiln room. Built it mostly out of construction scrap, (I bought one
piece of painted plywood) stored in your yard by our landlord's
> construction company.
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> You can see photos here: http://potters.blogspot.com/
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> --
> 李 Lee Love 大
> 愛 鱗
> in Mashiko, Japan http://mashiko.org
> http://hankos.blogspot.com/ Visual Bookmarks
> http://ikiru.blogspot.com/ Zen and Craft
>
> "With Humans it's what's here (he points to his heart) that makes the
> difference. If you don't have it in the heart, nothing you make will
make a difference." ~~Bernard Leach~~ (As told to Dean Schwarz)
True that!
G in Da UP
Navarre Pottery
Navarre Enterprises
Norway, Michigan, USA
http://public.fotki.com/GindaUP/
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