Fortunately for us, the humans,, when we chance to reflect on our existence from much earlier times to the present, we feel in a stronger, more sophisticated state than all our forebears—human and otherwise. Simply look about you and see the advantages of being human in the 21st century. We have certainly learned a great…
creative drift: more clay aesthetics*
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…
Further Drift: 1. What’s up?
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……
further drift: 2. what’s up,doc?
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…