Potter’s Crack
It is not
only the plumbers that are known to show their crack. I’ve been obsessed with
potter’s crack since about this time last year. I have spent the entire year
trying to expose my crack. I consider the blue and the red a thong of sorts
that I put between the cracks after a second bisque. I’m trying to skip this
one step with the application of slip under the crack. I just sneaked a cup
outta the wood kiln and it didn’t work. Damn! Everything I lust for involves
work.
These small
Korean moon jar shapes are sketches of what I’m thinking of doing at Starworks
on a larger scale. Most of the work that I looked at around Seagrove was pretty
traditional in form. After all when you
have 7 or 8 generations of potters there is bound to be a following of
tradition. I found this in Korea too! I want the work to be vessel oriented and
sculptural in nature.
I fully
realize that this is not everyone’s cuppa. That’s fine with me as I’m not every
bodies cuppa. I have always been fascinated with the idea of making pots that
blind people could enjoy. It is what I find so progressive about Canadian
currency. It has the dollar value in brail to assist the blind. So take these
pots minus colour, close your eyes and experience not only a nice full form but
a little finger journey along a rocky ledge. The rocky
ledge will look wonderful with the flowers from your garden growing out of it.
I think looking at the flowers on this ledge would be most satisfying. It is
further celebration of the bouquet and that is the intent of a great vase. The
intent is to celebrate the flowers not compete with them.
I’ve been
asked to present a Power Point lecture on Monday December 11th for
The Hamilton Potters Guild at the Carnegie Gallery at 7:30. I’m sure all are
welcome. Potters are welcoming people. The topic of the PP is “Fail, it ain’t
so bad-look at me! It centers around a career of over 40 years of making mistakes, taking wrong
turns ,motoring on and now more than ever I’m having the time of my life
“Listen, I
don’t want to stifle your creativity, but that thing you built there, it looks
like a pile of shit” Justin Halpern, Sh*t My Dad Says
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