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Category Archives: Ephemera
Sisyphus
What I believed I was doing in my life before cancer: I had been thinking of the difference between a person with no imagination (surely a figment?) and people who read for fun, who make and look/listen at/to art, who … Continue reading →
Recovering the Mojo
You have perhaps heard me moan about the pitfalls of ‘signature style’ over the years, but it perhaps takes an extraordinary circumstance and not a little courage to be willing to change. We can get too comfortable with our personas … Continue reading →
The Darwinian fate of Dreams, redux
My blog just blew up yesterday as someone shared an essay written some 4 years ago. Thanks whoever you are! Its a good essay about the precarious lives creative people have, written after my worst ever sale. I encourage you … Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Arts advocacy, Arts education, Beauty, Creative industry, Creativity, Ephemera, Imagination, metacognition
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Understanding and Knowing
I saw it, briefly, last night. Or rather I heard it. The settling dusk making my trips out to the kiln carrying freshly glazed pots even more treacherous, my nose firmly to the grindstone of beating full darkness and the … Continue reading →
How I fell in love with pottery
When I was first starting out in clay it was the perfect distraction from my graduate degree work in Philosophy. I needed time away from the cerebral stuff of my normal day, and sitting in front of a wheel with … Continue reading →
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Potters’ pots, low hanging fruit, and faces that only mothers could love
You know the phrase, “A face only a mother could love”? Well, potters’ pots are sort of like that. And while it might be easy to assume that mothers only have the prejudice of kinship to their advantage, they also … Continue reading →
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Repost: The aerobic exaggeration of ‘Carpe Diem’
I can’t help but think of the film Dead Poets Society when I hear the phrase ‘Carpe Diem’, a film that examines the conditions of life and ends in suicide. Robin Williams helped stick seizing the day cleanly in my … Continue reading →
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What makes art entrepreneurial and what doesn’t
‘There are few modern relationships as fraught as the one between art and money. Are they mortal enemies, secret lovers or perfect soul mates? Is the bond between them a source of pride or shame, a marriage of convenience or … Continue reading →
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What was I thinking… in 2013?
Hi all, and a belated happy new year! I’ve just been informed that my blog was among the top pottery related blogs of 2013 as reviewed on the Pottery Making Info blog. I am incredibly honored to find that all … Continue reading →
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The Persistence of Form
“Sometimes the long way round is the best way home” Scott Cooper A few days ago a fellow potter and I were looking at pots in a local sale and inevitably we started picking up mugs to see how they … Continue reading →
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CARTER GILLIES POTTERY 