Elizabeth Priddy on fri 4 may 07
How is this for an answer, and I am not just being a smartass:
Is that hand made?
I made it.
I used a lot more than my hands to make it.
But if you are asking whether there are a few thousand
more exactly like it somewhere?
No, there aren't.
So, long answer short, I made this.
I have the same problem as a production designer. I want
to keep each one unique enough to be worth a person making,
and yet make that person able to make lots of them fast.
That is called industrial engineering. It is a fine science. It
used to be called "being an inventor".
As an indeustrial engineer and designer I make decisions:
brush paint rather than use oils or china paint,
throw slabs rather than roll,
extrude coils rather than roll
throw pots rather than pinch
It takes a lot of product moving through to make a living.
You have to work your process just as much as your brain.
Over time, I came up with a tile bat system in 99 and gave it over
to Clayart. They are everywhere. Euclids is the best. Did I patent it?
Why! It is a bat with a hole in it and flats to fit the hole. My design is still
the best and cheapest. I saw them all at NCECA. It's in the archives.
Euclids came the closest.
I have recently come up with a Priddy PRESS. It also
solves a lot of design problems. It is a lot harder conceptually.
So I might patent it. I don't know. I probably won't. I just think it is
ridiculous to own ideas. And that is why I may never make millions.
The point is, some ideas are universal and simple and make your life
easier, faster, and better. Other ideas bog you down and paralyse
your creativity.
Fretting over what you make it with is one that will bog you down. Get
on board with technology.
Maybe the real answer to is it handmade is:
You're kidding, right? I wear glasses because without them I cannot see
as well. Do I make the glasses, no. But I sure am going to continue using them. This argument is the Reductio ad Absurdem applied to the question
of how low tech and true to real human experience you are, how granola as it were.
And that is the real issue with hand made, isn't it?
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If it was about how much time you have in each piece price wise,
Picasso is laughing his ass off in hell right now.
Elizabeth Priddy
Beaufort, NC - USA
http://www.elizabethpriddy.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7973282@N03/
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