mel jacobson on thu 16 feb 06
i have a studio. i built it as a studio.
but, it is a small home factory.
when in japan, i had a hard time getting
the word `studio` translated.
i think it was easy to mix with `small apartment`.
the connotation of studio was a place that someone
went to drink fancy coffee, smoke marijuana cigarettes
and think great thoughts about art. and, nothing ever
happened. except drink coffee, wine and smoke and have
thoughts. you know, make two pieces of art a year and
enter them in a show.
uchida used the term `home factory`.
interesting. that seemed to be the
standard phrase in kyoto at the time.
but, things change. a factory was where
things were made and people worked hard.
he liked that best. me too.
think of all the home industry over the years
that flourished.
blacksmith
furniture maker
weaver
quilt maker
silver smith
apple cider maker
home brew stills (moonshine)
and the list goes on forever.
potter was always right there
in the mix in every society in the world.
often just one person, with family help.
a brick factory might be just 5 people.
and would grow to 25. (if the clay mine
did not run out.)
today, a factory is where they make tractors.
all just words. we know that work, and making stuff
is what turns us on the most. it matters not what you
call your workplace.
mel
i have a small building/i call it a `garagette`.
i loved tony's post about his kiln. buy the best
tools in the world, they always pay for themselves.
that is a fact.
from mel/minnetonka.mn.usa
website: http://my.pclink.com/~melpots3
Elizabeth Priddy on thu 16 feb 06
I always think of my studio as a dojo.
Probably the only japanese word I just
never found a good english one for.
For me, making art is self-defense.
Pronunciation: 'dO-(")jO
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural dojos
Etymology: Japanese dOjO, from dO way, art + -jO ground
: a school for training in various arts of self-defense (as judo or karate)
mel jacobson wrote:
i have a studio. i built it as a studio.
but, it is a small home factory.
Elizabeth Priddy
Beaufort, NC - USA
http://www.elizabethpriddy.com
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John Jensen on thu 16 feb 06
I've never been exactly sure what a studio is, I assumed it was the room
where an artist works. When I first heard of "studio apartments," I =
thought
they were for artists. The room where I do most of my production =
pottery I
call my "shop." The room where I do my "creative" pottery, I call the =
"back
studio." And the room with my easel, music equipment, and computer I =
call
the "inside studio."
My Oxford dictionary says a studio is: 1) a room where an artist works =
or
dancers practice, 2) a room from which radio or television is broadcast, =
or
in which they are recorded 3) a room in which music or film is recorded =
4) a
film production company or 5)a flat with one main room.
Now I know....I guess.
John Jensen, Mudbug Pottery
John Jensen@mudbugpottery.com
http://www.toadhouse.com http://www.mudbugpottery.com
http://www.mudbugblues.com
Ann Brink on thu 16 feb 06
I keep trying to think of the exact word to describe how I think of my
workplace. It happens to be half of a south-facing garage which I have
filled very compactly with many shelves, tables, 2 wheels (another had to go
on the patio when I got my wheeled ware cart) and a kiln and raw
materials-in fact, everything required to make pots.
When I walk in (or show someone else my place) and see the profusion of
containers of oxides, stains, slips, and containers of glazes of all sizes,
and various containers with things for texturing, well, you know.....lots of
stuff... I feel like I am entering my very personal place designated for
creation, experimentation, reflection. I look around and think "I know what
each of these things are for, what they do," but only partly; there remain
more possibilities to discover. Is there a name for where (stereotypical)
witches concoct esoteric mixtures? (I know, I know-apologies to
practitioners of Wicca)....that's the sort of name I have in
mind..."Garagio" just doesn't get it, Taylor. How about "Sanctum
Ceramica"? I can think of it that way privately, but it's not a phrase to
bandy about. I need a simpler word.
Meanwhile, in actual practice, I refer to my workplace as "my workshop". If
my husband ever finishes the plane he is building in the other half of the
garage, and I can claim most of the space, (and his enormous table) I will
call it a studio.
Ann Brink in Lompoc CA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Elizabeth Priddy"
> I always think of my studio as a dojo.
> Probably the only japanese word I just
> never found a good english one for.
>
> For me, making art is self-defense.
>
> Pronunciation: 'dO-(")jO
> Function: noun
> Inflected Form(s): plural dojos
> Etymology: Japanese dOjO, from dO way, art + -jO ground
> : a school for training in various arts of self-defense (as judo or
karate)
>
> mel jacobson wrote:
> i have a studio. i built it as a studio.
> but, it is a small home factory.
>
.
Carl Finch on thu 16 feb 06
At 07:39 AM 2/16/2006, mel jacobson wrote:
>i have a studio. i built it as a studio.
>but, it is a small home factory.
I have a workshop, built as that and so called.
I can only bring myself to call it a "studio" when my dear wife teasingly
calls me her "artiste."
But I kinda like Mel's "home factory" since lotsa things get made (and
repaired) there. Perhaps when I really get down to brass tacks
(pottery-wise) I'll be calling it my "Home Refractory Factory!" ;-)
--Carl
in gorgeous, sunny, and clear (snow predicted for tomorrow?!) Medford, Oregon
Gayle Bair on thu 16 feb 06
I deleted the first posting I wrote in response but
cannot control the urge to join in...
Since the German language is so, so, wonderfully expressive =
descriptively.
I thought to look up pottery in a German to English on-line dictionary =
see:=20
http://www.iee.et.tu-dresden.de/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/wernerr/search.sh
Search for "Pottery" resulted in:
Search results for -- Suchergebnisse f=FCr 'pottery':=20
pottery -- das Steingut
pottery -- die Keramik
pottery -- die Tonware
pottery -- die T=F6pferei
pottery -- die T=F6pferware
pottery -- die T=F6pferwerkstatt
My personal favorite is the last one.
Studio in German proved my theory wrong oddly enough=20
studio -- das Studio.
Gayle Bair - Anne Elk is dead!=20
I'm going back into die T=F6pferwerkstatt studio & finish das =
Feinschleifen
Bainbridge Island, WA=20
Tucson, AZ
www.claybair.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Ann Brink
I keep trying to think of the exact word to describe how I think of my
workplace. It happens to be half of a south-facing garage which I have
filled very compactly with many shelves, tables, 2 wheels (another had =
to go
on the patio when I got my wheeled ware cart) and a kiln and raw
Snip>
that's the sort of name I have in
mind..."Garagio" just doesn't get it, Taylor. How about "Sanctum
Ceramica"? I can think of it that way privately, but it's not a phrase =
to
bandy about. I need a simpler word.
Meanwhile, in actual practice, I refer to my workplace as "my =
workshopsnip>
Ann Brink in Lompoc CA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Elizabeth Priddy"
> I always think of my studio as a dojo.snip>
Stephani Stephenson on wed 22 feb 06
to the moderator: I got an error / delivery message in sending this the
first time so am resending.SS
Janet
I hope you derive as much pleasure from naming your new workspace /
studio pottery as you will working in it and reveling in it and
putting it to quite good use!
To add even more flavor, if not confusion to the terms,
When I typed in 'workshop' on the online Roget's Thesaurus one of the
words it immediately cross referenced was the word 'factory'
which brought up the following terms:
branch, co-operative, firm, forge, foundry, laboratory, machine shop,
manufactory, mill, mint, plant, salt mines,
shop, sweatshop, warehouse, workroom, works, workshop
Then I typed in the word 'studio' . It brought up some of the
associated terms which you mentioned in your post,
but also cross referencing the term 'den' , with the following :
atelier, burrow, cave, cloister, couch, cubbyhole, family room, haunt,
hideaway, hideout, hole, hotbed, lair, library, lodge, nest, playroom,
recreation room, retreat, rumpus room, sanctuary, sanctum, shelter,
snuggery, studio, study
Though maybe not accurate in terms of describing a pottery
workshop/studio, I do find myself LIKING those words much more!
Ah! give me a snuggery over a salt mine any day!!! (I have never heard
the word snuggery before)
Could one perhaps have a pottery, a tilery and a snuggery under one
roof? ahh! sounds good to me!
The workplace is so many things . For many , it is also the
marketplace, the salon, the hall, the social gathering place and/or the
retreat, as well as the workplace.
One thing I revel in, is that I have now a rocking chair in the
studio, and am thinking about a hammock, for 'inspiration' time of
course!
best wishes
Stephani Stephenson
steph@revivaltileworks.com
http://www.revivaltileworks.com
Stephani Stephenson
steph@revivaltileworks.com
http://www.revivaltileworks.com
The Chapel of Art on wed 22 feb 06
Oxford Concise Dictionary:
1. working room of painter, sculptor,
photographer, etc. often with skylights or
windows specially designed to secure suitable
light
2. room in which cinema film is made; (in pl.)
such premises of a film company with auxiliary
buildings
3. room used for making recordings or in
broadcasting station for transmissions
Italian from Latin, as STUDY (1)
Yes, we all forget that the studio is really a
place of study in which to study!! Which in turn
is:
1. devotion of time and thought to acquiring
information, especially from books, pursuit of
some branch of knowledge.
As in make a study of; investigate carefully
2. thing that is or deserves to be investigated
or carefully examined.
Thanks to Mel, Stephanie S., Taylor in Rockport
TX and everyone for contemplating it with me! Far
from mere semantics (and no, Taylor, I do not
mind in the least if you want to use 18th c.
terminology - whatever broils your goose best for
you), I believe it is important to define what
one is and does. Give yourself some perimeters
and guidelines. Even down to what one calls a
workspace! I have neither workshop nor studio in
a potter`s sense of the word, but if I did, it
would be called a "studio pottery" in my own
mind, because I would be producing one-off pieces
rather than production ware. I also doubt it
would be a space confined to simple clay work.
Drawing, painting, papier mache, building,
joinery, metalwork, wax moulds... All sorts of
activities would be (on occasion) pursued even if
*primarily* a pot making space. It would fulfil
the role of a studio as being a place in which I
would be pursuing knowledge as well as creating
work...
Irrelevant or unimportant? Quite probably. But...
Ahhhh.... My day will come! As soon as we have
room for a dedicated work space with lots of
shelves, a large solid table and "a specially
designed light source" a long way from such
distractions as the kitchen and the pile of
ironing waiting to be done in the utility room...
LOL!
Good night, Clay Town!! Sleep tight!
Janet Kaiser
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