Lee Love on sat 18 jun 05
Eric Hansen wrote:
>who metions nothing about the kinds of considerations made by ceramics industrial designers, or ceramics scientists, who are intrinsically part of the ceramics fabric and continuum. Believe me, they study us like a hawk. They imitate us. I don't put potters down for being what they are. If the "high art" crowd doesn't get it, they don't get it.
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Eric, I just remembered a quote that encapsulates the two perspectives
on pots. It goes:
"I am not interested in the gynecologist's perspective on Love."
-- Clyde Widdershins.
As MacKenzie's quote goes (I used it as part of my new sig):
"Out of a kiln load of hundreds of pots, only a few reach out strongly
to the user. Out of this small number, even fewer will continue to
engage the senses after daily use. These seem to tap a source beyond the
personal and deal with universal experience. They are not necessarily
amenable to intellectual analysis, and, in fact, that analysis can
destroy a person's real appreciation and understanding of a piece. Some
pots just feel right, and a person who is open will know them. If given
time to absorb the inner nature of the work and its maker, this person
can share in the creative act that produced the piece." -- MacKenzie
Intuition has been steadily suppressed in Western Culture since the
Roman's took over. It is only recently, I think with the advent of the
equality of women, that things have changed in a very limited way.
Our other ancestors, the ancient Greeks (as so were the Celts), were
better at integrating the feminine and the masculine, the intuitive and
the intellect. We were talking about personality types earlier. Our
society's archetype is ESTJ (extroverted/Sensate/Thinking/Judging (yes,
cultures have personalities. I can remember easily, because it is the
opposite of my personality type. *haha!*) All extreme types have their
weaknesses. This personality seems to think other expressions disproves
the validity of its own. It is not very good at integration.
--
Lee Love
in Mashiko, Japan http://mashiko.org
http://hankos.blogspot.com/ Visual Bookmarks
http://ikiru.blogspot.com/ Zen and Craft
About the best pots:
"They are not necessarily amenable to intellectual analysis,
and, in fact, that analysis can destroy a person's real
appreciation and understanding of a piece."
-- Warren MacKenzie
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