T
Joined: Oct 17, 2004
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T
Aloha all,
Just my two cents, I have to agree with Sven I don’t think it’s hippies per say its more complex actually.
It is a couple of groups, first those who think ceramics are the most under appreciated art form ever, second the old lady ceramics shop expert who knows everything and you don’t. I have been harassed by both in my years of making Tiki mugs. There was a ceramics genius/manager at Laguna clay, when she saw me come thru the door she’d start yelling hey it’s they guy that doesn’t know anything about ceramics, I had apparently asked the wrong questions previously and she was very sweet about it. Another intense ceramics dude worked at the local pro shop and he would (literally) start shaking when he saw me, his boss was cool and I would crack jokes and get the whole room laughing but not this guy he would have to leave the building. I suspect he could not understand how I found a market for my kitschy crap while he was fighting the good mushy art clay fight and forced to work part time, no long hair he was bald had piercings, etc…
The other group is the bitter ole ceramics ladies, they have been doing this since Abe Lincoln and they know it all, along with; you poured it too thick, that glaze won’t look good on this, that’s an interesting cup, who buys these things, etc… They didn’t have cool glazes way back then or any reason to use them, everything was wheat flower gold, corn flower blue or some crap and why don’t you use this one it’s a nice color? When we would come to pick up or drop off, the whole ceramics class would stop talking and they would listen to the loud impromptu critique about what mistakes I’ve made with my most recent batch.
Obviously I could go on and on, my very best mahalos,
Bosko
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