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the blue problem (help!)

updated fri 20 sep 02

 

Earl Brunner on wed 18 sep 02


Just make a habit of shedding those tears on the way to the bank, you
will cry less.

Earl Brunner
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ceramic Arts Discussion List [mailto:CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG] On
Behalf Of C.T. Wagoner
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 4:25 AM
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: Re: The Blue Problem (HELP!)

I made MIB blue by accident and before I could stop myself I started
selling it and now a certain group comes back for more and more. I am
torn between making dignified glazes and selling lots of hideous blue
pots. I get the impression that if I stop I may be in danger from that
said group.

What am I to do? Will the tears I cry when I am using the glaze
eventually change it if I let them fall into the bucket? Perhaps I can
summon the courage to throw the glaze out (in an environmentally correct
way of course) along with my "artists statement" from my M.F.A.

C.T. Wagoner on wed 18 sep 02


I made MIB blue by accident and before I could stop myself I started
selling it and now a certain group comes back for more and more. I am
torn between making dignified glazes and selling lots of hideous blue
pots. I get the impression that if I stop I may be in danger from that
said group.

What am I to do? Will the tears I cry when I am using the glaze
eventually change it if I let them fall into the bucket? Perhaps I can
summon the courage to throw the glaze out (in an environmentally correct
way of course) along with my "artists statement" from my M.F.A.

It sounds like I better come to the Clayart Room next year for an
intervention.

Potter Wagoner (not "Porter Wagoner")
http://www.abcs.com/cwag
http://www.billiecreek.org

p.s. For the "I" counters it was 13 not counting this line.

Christena Schafale on wed 18 sep 02


Maybe you could gradually transmogrify it without them noticing. Put just
a little more iron into each successive batch and eventually you will have
a nice dignified dark brown. Maybe the customers won't notice (along the
lines of the frog in the gradually heating pot of water who is boiled
before he catches on).

Chris


At 06:25 AM 9/18/02 -0500, you wrote:
>I made MIB blue by accident and before I could stop myself I started
>selling it and now a certain group comes back for more and more. I am
>torn between making dignified glazes and selling lots of hideous blue
>pots. I get the impression that if I stop I may be in danger from that
>said group.
>
>What am I to do? Will the tears I cry when I am using the glaze
>eventually change it if I let them fall into the bucket? Perhaps I can
>summon the courage to throw the glaze out (in an environmentally correct
>way of course) along with my "artists statement" from my M.F.A.
>
>It sounds like I better come to the Clayart Room next year for an
>intervention.
>
>Potter Wagoner (not "Porter Wagoner")
>http://www.abcs.com/cwag
>http://www.billiecreek.org
>
>p.s. For the "I" counters it was 13 not counting this line.
>
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