M- with thanks
This blog
title won’t create too much traffic so I can say what’s on my mind. Thanks Emma
Smith (M) for taking the time outta your day to help me refresh my blog that
was in long need after 10 years and for trying to bring me up to speed on
Instagram. I love ya kid and you know that!
I drove
home thinking all the way of you and a few others that are part of my family
tree. What have I done to y’all??? Who
are you and who do you want to be is the question we pondered today. Do you
want to be the top seller at the Guild sale , be the big frog in the little
pond or a little frog in the big pond. You were a world traveller at a very
young age so I think I know where you are headed. The small pond will not offer enough variety
for your life.
From today’s
The Painters Keys by Sara Genn- Have an iron will and a butterfly mind.
M you are
one of the few that asks the question “why” and is not that concerned with “how
to”. Why a treadle wheel for cups and bowls? Why wood? Why clay like Starworks
provides? Why fill in a handle? Why pull a handle versus an extrusion? Why fire
slow? Oh shit the list goes on and nobody cares except you, me and a few
others. As long as it sells is so often the answer.
So back to
the question “Who are you?”.
You want to
be top seller at the Guild sale that is one road.
You want to
be a teacher and a mentor? That is quite
another road.
You want to
be a teacher outside of the little pond? That is yet another road.
For many
years I preached some and some(some for the marketplace and some for your soul)
but now at this point in my life I just
can’t do it all. If you pick something up, you have to put something down is my
new mantra.
The Guild
sale wants Christmas ornaments, the potter’s conferences don’t. The potters want your undulated rims, your
edges, your dry surfaces that you love and the Guild doesn’t. One day you will have
to decide. As for now you need both. You and your good man Jesse Black live by
the sword- ya need the money. Do what ya have to do until you get as old as me
with a pension then you too can pontificate.
I’m having
a sale this weekend. I need to make room for my imagination. It’s gotten even
larger now that I have decided to put something down.
My new
bourbon cup by M. Interesting that after
the year you have had your work has gotten stronger. What does that tell us????
“If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere” Frank
A. Clark “If you’re gong through hell, keep going.” Winston Churchill.
Comments
Remember the late Peter Goodridge, head honcho at the Aberystwyth festival?
He always used to ask..."and what do you really want????" such a difficult question to honestly answer.
Yes, "discontinued items"...seconds get The Hammer