Les on wed 15 mar 06
Gari -
Cool stuff!!!
Les.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gari Whelon"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: lee, plastic bags and nceca
> Me
>
> l what a fun thread you've started, and it was a pleasure to finally meet
> you at my first NCECA.
>
> I have just being reading Susan Petersons old book on Hamada and she
> describes the clay in his workshop piled in a mound 10 feet high, 20 feet
> long and 8feet deep, crusty on the outside but soft and moist on the
> inside
> and good to supply the workshop for a year, so if you work in that volume,
> maybe you don't need bags. Lee are using clay from the same source?
>
> Unless I missed it no one has mentioned a few of the other gallery hi
> lites
> at Nceca shows outside of Portland.
>
> Mt. Hood college had a great show of wood fired work from 10 or more wood
> kilns in Oregon, and there were 2 shows at a centre in Hillsboro, about a
> 30
> drive, but also accessible from the Max blur line.
>
> The Hillsboro show featured works from potters who have fired at Hiroshi
> Onawa's Hikarigama kiln, and there was also a spectacular installation in
> the main hall
>
> The installation was of A FULL WOOD FIRED ANAGAMA WITHOUT THE WALL BRICKS.
> The kiln shed, shelves, dirt floor, tin roof, chimney had all being
> replicated and all of the pots from the last firing of Richard Rowland's
> Anagama were placed in roughly the same place and configuration they were
> in
> , in the firing, an amazing sight.
>
> The kiln installation was framed with cast whale bones so it looked like
> an
> Anagama in a see thru whale. I have some digitals of it but as I've just
> signed back on I'm not sure if, or how to share them.
>
> The other show I haven't seen mentioned was the Laura Rosso gallery with
> work by Boyden, Reitz. Jun Kaneko and Geoffrey Pagen.
>
> Interesting juxtaposition to see Boydens wet forms being manipulated at
> the
> demo on Friday and to see finished examples of the similar work on
> Saturday.
>
> Wish I'd made it to the airstream, I didn't know what it was either.
>
> What a great experience that whole week was.
>
> Gari
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clayart [mailto:CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG]On Behalf Of lee love
> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 4:11 PM
> To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
> Subject: Re: lee, plastic bags and teenagers
>
> --- In clayart@yahoogroups.com, clennell wrote:
>
>
>> Lee: the street guy is Allegany Meadows(mother had to be a hippy)
>
> But by the sounds of his marketing savvy, his dad must have been Steve
> Jobs. ;^)
>
>
>> Remember gang that not only did the 50's bring plastic bags and
>>ceramic supply houses it brought the first teenagers.
>
> From my experience of raising kids and watching kids in other
> people's families, I think we can trace many of our social problems
> with the extended childhood created by the social invention of teenage
> hood. Kids are raised by their peer group and not their parents,
> unless the parents are wealthy enough to hold the child's economic
> future hostage. I suppose this is why home schooling is popular.
> I certainly don't blame the kids.
>
>> hitchhiking around Europe with no fear that there wouldn't be a job
>>for me when i got home. the world was our oyster.
>
> I always take a moment to remember this. It isn't as easy
> for young people as it was when we were there. Grants and
> scholarships for college are more difficult to get. My daughter
> graduated 2nd in her class with near a 4point, and financial aid was
> only in the form of loans. I didn't understand at the time, when she
> was thinking of joining the army. She got a bachlor's and is an ICU
> RN, when she isn't home schooling her kids.
>
> Maybe David Suzuki spoke about this, but I think we are at a
> crucial transition phase of society. If we can just make the leap
> from a carbon based society to a sustainable one, we can have an
> economy more like the one that existed when we were teenagers. If we
> don't make the leap, it will just continue getting tougher.
>
> --
> Lee In Mashiko, Japan
> http://mashiko.org
> http://seisokuro.blogspot.com/
>
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Gari Whelon on wed 15 mar 06
Me
l what a fun thread you've started, and it was a pleasure to finally meet
you at my first NCECA.
I have just being reading Susan Petersons old book on Hamada and she
describes the clay in his workshop piled in a mound 10 feet high, 20 feet
long and 8feet deep, crusty on the outside but soft and moist on the inside
and good to supply the workshop for a year, so if you work in that volume,
maybe you don't need bags. Lee are using clay from the same source?
Unless I missed it no one has mentioned a few of the other gallery hi lites
at Nceca shows outside of Portland.
Mt. Hood college had a great show of wood fired work from 10 or more wood
kilns in Oregon, and there were 2 shows at a centre in Hillsboro, about a 30
drive, but also accessible from the Max blur line.
The Hillsboro show featured works from potters who have fired at Hiroshi
Onawa's Hikarigama kiln, and there was also a spectacular installation in
the main hall
The installation was of A FULL WOOD FIRED ANAGAMA WITHOUT THE WALL BRICKS.
The kiln shed, shelves, dirt floor, tin roof, chimney had all being
replicated and all of the pots from the last firing of Richard Rowland's
Anagama were placed in roughly the same place and configuration they were in
, in the firing, an amazing sight.
The kiln installation was framed with cast whale bones so it looked like an
Anagama in a see thru whale. I have some digitals of it but as I've just
signed back on I'm not sure if, or how to share them.
The other show I haven't seen mentioned was the Laura Rosso gallery with
work by Boyden, Reitz. Jun Kaneko and Geoffrey Pagen.
Interesting juxtaposition to see Boydens wet forms being manipulated at the
demo on Friday and to see finished examples of the similar work on Saturday.
Wish I'd made it to the airstream, I didn't know what it was either.
What a great experience that whole week was.
Gari
-----Original Message-----
From: Clayart [mailto:CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG]On Behalf Of lee love
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 4:11 PM
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: Re: lee, plastic bags and teenagers
--- In clayart@yahoogroups.com, clennell wrote:
> Lee: the street guy is Allegany Meadows(mother had to be a hippy)
But by the sounds of his marketing savvy, his dad must have been Steve
Jobs. ;^)
> Remember gang that not only did the 50's bring plastic bags and
>ceramic supply houses it brought the first teenagers.
From my experience of raising kids and watching kids in other
people's families, I think we can trace many of our social problems
with the extended childhood created by the social invention of teenage
hood. Kids are raised by their peer group and not their parents,
unless the parents are wealthy enough to hold the child's economic
future hostage. I suppose this is why home schooling is popular.
I certainly don't blame the kids.
> hitchhiking around Europe with no fear that there wouldn't be a job
>for me when i got home. the world was our oyster.
I always take a moment to remember this. It isn't as easy
for young people as it was when we were there. Grants and
scholarships for college are more difficult to get. My daughter
graduated 2nd in her class with near a 4point, and financial aid was
only in the form of loans. I didn't understand at the time, when she
was thinking of joining the army. She got a bachlor's and is an ICU
RN, when she isn't home schooling her kids.
Maybe David Suzuki spoke about this, but I think we are at a
crucial transition phase of society. If we can just make the leap
from a carbon based society to a sustainable one, we can have an
economy more like the one that existed when we were teenagers. If we
don't make the leap, it will just continue getting tougher.
--
Lee In Mashiko, Japan
http://mashiko.org
http://seisokuro.blogspot.com/
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lee love on thu 16 mar 06
--- In clayart@yahoogroups.com, Gari Whelon wrote:
> long and 8feet deep, crusty on the outside but soft and moist on the
inside
> and good to supply the workshop for a year, so if you work in that
volume,
> maybe you don't need bags. Lee are using clay from the same source?
Hi Gari,
Sort of. The seam they are working now for the light colored clay
is deeper. My red clay (that Hamada didn't use) is higher in the hill
than Hamada's. Kawada-san pointed out Hamada's seam the first time
we visited. I think the light clay is now dug out of a pond. I am
not sure if it helps the preperation or if water simply fills up the
hole they are digging in.
If you ever visit Hamada's museum, you will see on the back
wall of his studio some doors that lead to a cave like room. They
stored the clay in this room.
--
Lee In Mashiko, Japan
http://mashiko.org
http://seisokuro.blogspot.com/
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