Lee Love on tue 20 dec 05
potter
On 2005/12/20 11:03:47, Tom at Hutchtel.net (twirt@hutchtel.net) wrote:
> I can remember maybe 5, 6, 7 years ago when you were first starting out.
I don't know if 7 years is too long to go to settle on a style.
Actually, we are all pretty different. My friend Haruo, travels every
year, and when he gets back to Mashiko, he works on a new style that is
influenced by his travels. Yes, he has a couple lines he works on
continually, but he also is always making new things.
> You've got to peg your firings. Peg you glaze technique. Peg your glaze
> density. Make really great kiln goddesses. And have phenomenal luck,
> especially at the beginning
There is a big hazard in this, especially if you do it too soon. As I
have mentioned before, copying others or copying traditional work is not
the creative persons number one hazard. Copying one's self is the
biggest hazard. This usually happens after we have some sucess. Instead
of growing, we copy ourselves.
> And Donovan Palmquist, in a class I took(he doesn't just build kilns),
> made
> us focus on WHY we liked what we liked. Had to keep answering that
> question
> "WHY" until there was no more deeper.
I think Donovan and I heard this from the same teachers. It is a good
question. It is a way to break out of habitual work.
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李 Lee Love 大
愛 鱗
in Mashiko, Japan http://mashiko.org
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"The way we are, 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."
--Burley Coulter (Wendell Berry)
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