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throwing perfectly straight cylinders

updated mon 9 oct 06

 

David Woof on sun 8 oct 06


Dear, sorry I didn't catch your name, You have my encouragement to
practice preciseon throwing as a dicipline for the hand and eye and after
you have mastered this w/o use of ribs and rulers I hope you are planning or
willing to loosen up and let room for heart and creative expression come
into your personal aesthetic.

However your beating heart, breath, stomach rumblings, and stray thoughts
expressed in your hands as nerve twitches and trembles all work against your
achieving absolute precision and these activities of being a living human I
am so thankful for.

How boreing would it be if machine shop precision were the holy quest we
strive for? In a world gone mad with consummerism and technical efficency
designed to maximize profit, it's quite dark outside aesthetically and to
feel traces of anothers loving and passionate hand when I draw a clay mug's
lip to mine is a comfort and reassurance that I am not alone out here. This
was at the root of the great Craft Revival made in response to the
depersonalizing Industrial Revolution.

If you indeed must produce machine shop perfect cylindars I'm sure the fast
track would be attending classes at a Tech School where you could learn tool
and die makeing and CAD design and gain real satisfaction while recieving
praise and a rather fat regular paycheck for your machine shop precision.

On the other hand you could join in contributing beauty to a world and life
where there will never be too much. Please?

Best wishes,

David
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