clennell on sun 31 jul 05
Sour Cherry Pottery
> Tony,
>
> The last place I heard that Euan's design was built was at my Grandfather
> Love's birthplace, Wolfcreek, Wisconsin. A small world! (when Grandpa Love
> knew Annie Oakley, he went by the name "Red", because of his flaming red hair.
> He left Grandma Love for a while to join a wild west show.)
Lee: I'd like to have been born with the last name Leach, so I could fetch
more $$$$ for my pots, but Red Love is a pretty fine handle. If you haven't
named your kiln I suggest Red Hot Love. Our kiln is named Cassius Clay-
floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee.
If someone has taken the years to design a kiln that works, why change a
thing? Little add on features maybe, but the working guts of the thing leave
well enough alone. There are wood kilns that are dogs scattered all over the
country. Bad firings can be sooooooooo discouraging. After we had 2 aborted
firings at Darlene's people were saying I was looking very serious for about
6 hours of the 3rd firing. When I knew the kiln was responding like it
should I started to laugh and smile. We unload in the morning. The snot
factor will be huge. One of the reasons I love trains.
Cheers,
Tony
A graduate student Todd Leech from PA is coming here Tuesday. Kelly can no
longer make fun of Leech's.
Tony and Sheila Clennell
Sour Cherry Pottery
4545 King Street
Beamsville, Ontario
CANADA L0R 1B1
http://www.sourcherrypottery.com
http://www.sourcherrypottery.com/current_news/news_letter.html
Lee Love on mon 1 aug 05
clennell wrote:
> Lee: I'd like to have been born with the last name Leach, so I could fetch
> more $$$$ for my pots, but Red Love is a pretty fine handle. If you
> haven't
> named your kiln I suggest Red Hot Love. Our kiln is named Cassius Clay-
> floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee.
My kiln name is "Ikiru", after the Kurosawa film of the same
name. It means "To Live!" One of my favorite movies. Explains,
from an existential perspective, what "We" create meaning in our lives.
Related to existential perspectives: I don't understand Lilli's
need to discuss about "Who is a potter and who ain't." You really
should worry about the MFAs and profs Lilli. What they do don't take
away from what we do. I never needed somebody else to tell me who
I am and I am courteous enough to call people what they want to be called.
Makes me think of a Wendell Berry quote. A character, Burly
Coultier says it:
/"The way we are," he says, "we are members of each other. All
of us. Everything. The difference ain't in who is a member and who is
not, but in who knows it and who don't."/
In the same vein, "A potter knows another potter when he
meets him." -- Clay Mudman
> 6 hours of the 3rd firing. When I knew the kiln was responding like it
> should I started to laugh and smile. We unload in the morning. The snot
> factor will be huge. One of the reasons I love trains.
Good Luck!
> A graduate student Todd Leech from PA is coming here Tuesday. Kelly can no
> longer make fun of Leech's.
To study? Or visit?
--
Lee Love
in Mashiko, Japan http://mashiko.org
http://seisokuro.blogspot.com/ My Photo Logs
"We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see,
it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer,
perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet."
-- W.B. Yeats
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