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Month: February 2021

creative drift: more clay aesthetics*

Posted on February 20, 2021September 8, 2022 by bob

Researchers have shown that humans were making fired clay objects (diverse figurines) many millennia ago (central Europe, circa 30,000 years). There were pots and food-related objects known to be made about 14-16,000 years ago (Japan) and in what today we call the near east and Egypt, about 10,000 years ago. These objects were created by…

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Further Drift: 1. What’s up?

Posted on February 19, 2021September 8, 2022 by bob

Simply complex: What are you making? What are you doing? What is going on here? Such simple questions which are asked in one form or another by almost all visitors to a potter/clay artist’s studio when the artist is at work. The questions are normal, responses usually obvious if the visitor’s eyes are open, but……

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further drift: 2. what’s up,doc?

Posted on February 19, 2021September 8, 2022 by bob

What are you making? What are you doing? What is going on here? Such simple questions: hold your breath, congestion is coming! Human language is pregnant with innumerable subtleties of meaning and embryonic intent, and a modest amount of familial coherence and confusion, all accompanied by a modicum of silliness. Humans often lose their way…

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