Tuesday, February 10, 2009

It's a funny thing about money...

Thank you for all of your concerns. With the economic hard times, everybody has been affected. I am lucky to have a job...there are many out there without. I know the numbers came out to nearly some 600,000 people, but I know that there are more out there without work.

On another note, I have begun working again! Nothing impressive, but surely thought provoking...in a procedural way of course.

I had a thought one day...about Jun Kaneko. He does huge pieces, called Dangos (trans. Japanese dumplings, or dumplings), that are often seen in public spaces (in front of buildings, etc). I went to a lecture that he was doing at the Japanese American National Museum in LA a while back where he was explaining that he bisque fired these Dangos for weeks because they were so large and thick. I know that this might sound crazy, but does he really need to fire em that slowly? or is it a marketing scheme to pump the value into this work? ie, unlike standard ceramic artists, I fire by pieces an exorbitantly long time and thus my work is priced higher. Like I said, crazy thought about what it really takes for a ceramic artist to make it in the mainstream.

Of course, this is all really prompted by the fact that I feel that ceramic artists are, in general, at the lowest spot on the totem-pole. One might say we were are the pediatrics of the art field, although that might even be questionable considering the fine line we dance between art and craft.

posted by Joseph Lee @ 4:26 PM   0 Comments

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