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signing my name

updated wed 25 jun 03

 

primalmommy on tue 24 jun 03


When I was first married and built my first wobbledy-hop wheel and made
awkward, thick-bottomed, embarrassing pots, I was so proud of it all --
the pots, the marriage, the hyphenated name -- that I scrawled "Kelly
Averill Savino" across the bottom of each pot... pots that I would now
love to deny having ever made.

As my work got better, I made little stamps of odd shapes, little animal
track looking things, or some other abstract "chop mark" nobody but me
would recognize...

Eventually it occurred to me that somebody, somewhere might like to know
who made a pot they own.. so I made a stamp that says "KELLY" because
most of the pots I sell go to family, friends, or through sales at the
potter's guild (where tracking down the member "kelly" would not be hard
to do.)

Averill-Savino is a long name... and neither are really mine, as they
have neglected to give credit to the woman who gave birth to me, or to
my husband, or their mothers.... I have long thought it would be a good
idea to combine names in a marriage (Kelly Averino?) or somehow dispense
with the whole thing all together. Its a pain to be hyphenated. Nobody
knows what you're filed under, and your husband finds himself "Mr.
Averill Savino" on membership cards.

And nobody knows who I am, anyway... Susan Fox Hirschmann hung out a car
window in Tennessee and read the words "Kelly" and "Toledo" on my name
tag, and yelled, "HEY! You're Kelly in Ohio!" before abducting me into
the back seat of her car to go find the outer edge of the dry county to
buy some refreshments. And in LaCrosse, Glen Allenspach and his lovely
wife and I had dinner together on a Saturday night, with lots of
wonderful conversation... and from the other end of a long table on
Sunday night, I heard him exclaim, "THAT'S primalmommy?" (dude!)

I probably should sign pots with my domain name... primalmommy.com. At
least folks could find me if they wanted another pot. It seems to me
like repeat customers know me anyway, though.

Marta, thanks for the birthday wishes. One of my presents will be
delayed for a few weeks -- as my mom has to wait for the Ann Arbor Art
Fair in a few weeks in order to get me a RICHARD AERNI POT
thankyouverymuch.

Did I mention I am getting a Richard Aerni pot?

ahem.

OK, I'm off to the hammock with a wha-guru chew and a good book. It's my
party and I'll lounge if I want to...

Yours, Kelly Averill Savino aka Kelly in Ohio aka primalmommy aka "that
woman with the Richard Aerni pot"


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