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fwd: tight vs. loose throwing

updated thu 10 nov 05

 

Lee Love on wed 9 nov 05


On 2005/11/09 23:05:55, claybair wrote:

> Hmmmm........ and it only took 50 years to
> realize it! No judgment just a realization.
> You know something sitting right in your face
> and you don't recognize or see it until the right conditions
> makes it visible.

It is good to know where you come from. :-)

Some of my favorites work is this way. The most gestural
aspect of my Sensei's work is his slip trailed decoration. In form,
he prefers curves over gesture. Tomimoto was extremely precise.
Japanese potters believe he is more influential than Hamada. Most of
Noguchi's work preferred curve over gesture too. Rembrandt and
Vermeer were into precision. Nobody has surpassed Rembrandt yet.
In woodblocks, you see precision in both Hokusai, Hiroshigi and all
the Ukiyo-e. The camera set the medium free, to a degree.


--
Lee Love
in Mashiko, Japan http://mashiko.org
http://seisokuro.blogspot.com/ My Photo Logs

"Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful,
more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her
inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous."


--Leonardo da Vinci

Lee Love on wed 9 nov 05


On 2005/11/09 23:04:19, : Malcolm Schosha
mailto:malcolm_schosha@yahoo.com]> wrote:


>
> It still sounds to me that you are saying that your view on this is the
> only correct view.

Malcolm. You need to start making pots again. :^)

--
Lee Love
in Mashiko, Japan http://mashiko.org
http://seisokuro.blogspot.com/ My Photo Logs

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."

--Leonardo da Vinci

Lee Love on wed 9 nov 05


Potter, Mark potter@sextantsearch.com]> wrote:
>
> Pots are not tight or loose at all. They're clay.
> Only minds are tight or loose.

I wish this were true, but.... Your hands can be tight or
loose. Your mind can be tight or loose. You spirit can be tight or
loose. The work is filtered through them all.


--
Lee Love
in Mashiko, Japan http://mashiko.org
http://seisokuro.blogspot.com/ My Photo Logs

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."

--Leonardo da Vinci

Lee Love on thu 10 nov 05


On 2005/11/09 23:05:55, Diane and Hank wrote:

>> I just saw Linda Christiansen at Michigan Mud.
>
> Good point. and I thought Michael Cardew was slow until I saw Linda in
> a workshop at Mt Hood C.C. It was a joy to see how she makes love to
> the clay, and this is not hyperbole.

Linda is one of my favorite potters.

Loose or tight doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the
speed at which you work. The Foreman and head thrower at my teacher's
workshop is very fast and very precise. I am very slow. I was
so slow, that it annoyed the Foreman.

I am so slow that I lecture better than I demo.

--
Lee Love
in Mashiko, Japan http://mashiko.org
http://seisokuro.blogspot.com/ My Photo Logs

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

--Leonardo da Vinci