Ric Swenson on wed 20 apr 11
So,
Hi guys...many months since I have posted to you all.
I read you all everyday..advancers...posts....kiln washes....lili's posts I=
like....soda firing.... salt? naked raku....Seattle??? almost my homet=
own...went to school there....UW and PLU and UPS....Mcquistion...Ball ....S=
tevens....I wish someday I could go to NCECA....but who would pay? what wo=
uld I say? no way. I am too private a potter to expose myself...ask Hendle=
y...or Olsen..I just keep to myself. I work for myself. I could give sh%=
t what you think. It is just MY work...like Brother Thomas told me..'just =
do it for yourself'. Make the copper work for you....make some good stuff.=
...try this shape...try another texture..
F. C. Ball and Fred Olsen also said....do YOUR OWN WORK....do not care what=
others think. So I live my life this way...guided by my own compass.
I live in China at the place where porcelain began 1006 years ago...and I t=
ry to follow some traditions...but I cherish the pots I have seen and have =
from Olsen, Stevens, Ball. Clennel, Voukos, Soldner, Mcquistion, Bailey, Ju=
die Chicago...Hendley.......and music from Santanta....JIMI Hendrix, my cla=
ssmates, and others...
Life just goes on...
the life in JingDeZhen continues....I got married last week...now I am Chin=
ese....hehe
The food here is So good!
I fired my work in a local kiln last week..it worked...........
.I am still a foreigner here...But I do not care....
my work speaks for itself....like it? ok....hate it? ok..
The birds sing...I sing.... maybe we all sing in our own ways....Mels' in=
his... and me in mine and Lili's in hers....we all sing.....different tune=
s ....but the same melody.
I will write my own book someday..if I should live so long.....
let's make a song together?
here the frogs sing...in the night..the bats fly and swoop to find mosquit=
os....good shit....less biting for me.... mice suffer from the cats.....bet=
ter for me. My cat is a good guy...keeps me safe from the bad mice and rat=
s that I hate.
The herons sweep and dive at fish...I try to paint them on paper and in my =
ceramic work in blue and white...oy...uff da
The life here in China is quite wonderful..some of you know.
relaxed and content. enough food? ok. (but I ramble..as I often do...a=
divergent thinker....more's the pity...heehee)
hope you all can enjoy life...Easter and all....
my students have real life....I consider them my grandchildren in some ways=
....I am 'yiyi.'..'grandfather'...at 63 I never thought it would happen....=
but actually it has...and I am not unhappy with it.
My own two daughters have married and I hope to be a grandfather soon....li=
fe goes on...as does our work in clay....
make a texture you like....do some glazing you like...wood? Salt? soda? r=
eduction? cone 6? JUST DO IT.
Ric
http:blog.sina.com.cn/ricswenson
"...then fiery expedition be my wing, ..."
-Wm. Shakespeare, RICHARD III, Act IV Scene III
Richard H. ("Ric") Swenson, Teacher,
Office of International Cooperation and Exchange of Jingdezhen Ceramic Inst=
itute,
TaoYang Road, Eastern Suburb, Jingdezhen City.
JiangXi Province, P.R. of China.
Postal code 333001.
Mobile/cellular phone : 86 13767818872
< RicSwenson0823@hotmail.com>
http://www.jci.jx.cn
Edouard Bastarache on wed 20 apr 11
Ric.
Very nice text !!!
Gis,
Edouard Bastarache
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