Elizabeth Priddy on thu 13 jul 06
My response was to your snippy pique, not critique.
Does rhyming make it more palatable?
Yeah, it would be ballsy to just send him one of my
painted slabs. But how else will he know I exist?
You gonna give him the heads up?
I have been on hiatus for 2 years now and that is a
very long time for me. I have to get moving.
I would not have asked you if I didn't respect your
opinion, you beast. Do I really seem like any kind of
brown-noser you've ever met? I would sincerely like
to know what you think, which is what I said in the
first place. And I appreciate your pique even though
I will not pander to it. You deserve the respect you
get and I know that. So there.
But that's all you get, old man! Someday you and I
will meet up in person and I will make you laugh.
I am glad you kept my little pot. It was fired with
wood but only up to 900 degrees F. And the finish is
very similar to some anagama work. It might be worth
another look with that information. If you are
familiar with miniature basketry, the idea is that in
a picture, you cannot determine it's size, although
the basket is made from some alternative materials to
compensate for reed diameter and such. The little pot
I sent you is like that only to wood firing and it has
a pulled handle, even. But this is related to my
piece for CM and I need to just hush and see what they
say. I'll publish the results one way or another, as
it amounts to half of my "thesis", the other half
being in the brush painted tile series I am working on
now and have sceduled to show in a month long show in
a gallery in November. Remember, a home-MFA takes
some scrappy balls and time to complete.
I have not got the cracks to the wall in the pics of
the work I have been doing.
I would gladly send you snaps of the rears of my work,
but you would probably think that was cheeky and still
not want to say what you think, since it seems you
still have your arse a little high on the shoulder.
I don't think you can tell much from pictures of
functional work, but if you had looked, you would see
that 80% of my work is purely decorative, the pots
that one critiquer thought must be heavy fly off the
table when you pick them up, and that my white
dinnerware is not much to speak of, as it is stale to
me as I revisited some old work in the process of
getting ready for the show, note that the iris
paintings are formulaic and reminiscent of my
teacher's work and not my own. Except for the grid
raku plates, the raku work is unremarkable and on
simple forms that I used to test the kiln I built.
But I am shutting my own mouth about the work until
anyone with an opinion says what they will. I am
learning a lot.
That little pot does seem to have some strange
bedfellows and I am glad you kept it. I just assumed
you would crit it, not that you might actually enjoy
having it. Surprise me again, would ya!
I'm glad we "talked", cat to dog as usual, but we work
with what we've got.
Rowwr! Woof!
E
Elizabeth Priddy
Beaufort, NC - USA
http://www.elizabethpriddy.com
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