primalmommy on fri 7 oct 05
Sitting in this big, quiet hotel room -- king sized bed, no cat, no kids
--- I just typed a long email about the workshop with Brad Schweiger,
Fong Choo and Julia Galloway. Then I pushed the wrong button and it was
gone.
I don't have the heart to do it all over again, and it's late -- so
here's the sound bite version.
Thursday night drive down: Indiana Roadsides made me think of Dannon's
pots. Early fallish, sumac going lipstick-red, fields of wheat and corn
stubble. I drove watching the fence posts for hawks and the tree line
for deer.
Museum: Glorious pots, some stars I recognized from CM covers and the
posters/postcards I have at home.
Panel discussion: marketing, design, aesthetic, balancing teaching and
making.
This morning: Charlie Cummings' studio, the front of an old general
store or hadware ---big windows, wood floors, glorious earthenware pots
from names I knew well.
Workshop -- Julia is the no-bullshit speaker of prose I remembered from
Functional in Wooster -- Brad does amazing things with a bit of wire --
Fong Choo is like his little teapots, skilled and organized, careful,
but funky and with a sense of humor.
And no, they're not functional in any practical sense. And yes, they are
several hundred dollars. I suppose you could funnel in some water,
tweezer a few leaves in and it would pee something tealike into your cup
(all but the last three drops) -- but they are truly eye candy, mantel
jewelry. They would assault your eye every day, like Joyce's flickers --
shouting, "LOOK AT ME! I AM BRIGHT AND COLORFUL AND LOUD AND LOVELY!"
Makes more sense to me than the kind of money people spend on pearls and
diamonds (which all look artless and identical to me, and which I can't
tell from the dime store kind.) I firmly believe that the issue of
whether a price is too high can be answered very simply. Do people buy
them? Yes? Then the price is fine.
Must sleep. More workshop tomorrow and then a reception, and a long
drive home. Firstborn is 12 on Sunday.. how did that happen so fast?
Yours
Kelly of Ohio, in Fort Wayne
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