Jeff Lawrence on fri 25 oct 96
I've always been jealous of those who can sieze an issue/situation in
crystalline focus, ready to discuss it from any perspective and enumerate
its parts forwards backwards and sideways. Analytic capability is a delight
when it is the proper road to where you want to go -- getting to the bottom
of a glaze difficulty or finding your way back home when your lost.
Consider bentonite, though. You analyze it and what do you have? silica,
alumina and a few other things. But we use it in a glaze for its property of
swelling up when wet, a property that doesn't show up on the anaylitic scope
at all. It's not the parts that make it special, it's the way they go
together. Art is a synthesis. Everyone should practice it the same way they
should practice analytic procedure.
I worry sometimes that I don't do the analytic side justice. But then,
Socrates on death row was worried that he might ought to have been writing
poetry. Maybe the struggle is the thing.
Jeff Lawrence
jml@sundagger.com
Sun Dagger Design, Route 1 Box 394L, Espanola NM 87532
vox/fax: 505-753-5913
"All the great men of our time are dead ...
and I don't feel so hot myself."
Corinne Null on sat 26 oct 96
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Analytic capability is a delight
>when it is the proper road to where you want to go -- getting to the bottom
>of a glaze difficulty or finding your way back home when your lost.
>
Art is a synthesis. Everyone should practice it the same way they
>should practice analytic procedure.
>
I've just been muttering about how I got into clay for its right-brain artsy
side, and all I seem to be doing recently is the left-brain scientific
analysis stuff. Perhaps that is part of the allure of this craft - that it
utilizes so much of the brain, and certainly the whole body too!
Corinne Null
Bedford, NH
cnull@mv.mv.com
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