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All rights reserved November 1983 3 4 Ceramics Monthly Ceramics Monthly Volume 31, Number 9 November 1983 Feature Articles Rhode Island Influences.......................................... 29 Gordon Baldwin ...................................................... 30 Changes by Mayer Shacter................................................ 32 Henry Pim................................................................ 40 Jill Bonovitz by Susan Beckman............................................. 41 Traditional Potters of Icheon, Korea by Mikhail Zakin................................................. 43 Clay Art in Industry by Deborah Horrell............................................. 48 Nader Khalili: Fired Houses by Jim Danisch.................................................... 50 Salt and Form by Sarah Walton.................................................. 55 Early Thai Civilization............................................ 60 Departments Letters....................................................................... 7 Suggestions............................................................... 11 Where to Show......................................................... 13 Questions.................................................................. 15 Itinerary.................................................................... 17 Comment: Aesthetic Vocabulary by Brian Moeran................................................. 21 News & Retrospect.................................................. 65 New Books................................................................ 81 Classified Advertising............................................. 86 Index to Advertisers 88 The Cover British potter Sarah Walton at her pottery in Sel- meston, Sussex. Her work is lightly salt glazed so that the form is dominant. “My chosen language is the three dimensions. My grammar and syntax are vol ume, texture, weight, balance, scale and line.” For additional insight to her approach, see “Salt and Form” beginning on page 55. Photo: Duncan McNeil. November 1983 5 6 Ceramics Monthly Letters September Issue duction throwing, I’ll be in more pain, some the hands-back position other than centering The September issue was a wonderful way times intense and local, but usually just very or wedging clay, when there isn’t much choice. to come out of the summer doldrums. sore like a sprained wrist. I’ve found taking vitamin B-6 and B-com- Special thanks to Albert Green for his no- I started going to a chiropractor weekly to plex the most helpful but a few days without nonsense, practical approach to glaze for have my hands, arms and back aligned, but two B-6 a day and I’m in pain again. I feel mulation. I shall pass it on to my students. it didn’t help a lot. It was recommended that there must be some natural way, be it diet, The photo color coverage from Katie Ka I do exercises, so I keep a spring hand ex yoga or wrist braces at night to cure this zan (“Colored Clay Invitational”) to Kath erciser in my car and if I remember, give common potter’s problem—something short mandu (“Potters of Nepal”) was superb. myself a little workout at red lights. I also of going under a surgeon’s blade. John Kudlacek was told to do push-ups with my fists closed. I’d like to hear from those who have had Emporia, Kans. In general I try not to strain my wrists in Continued There we go again: Is Linda Birnbaum’s letter (September) a critique for critique’s sake, or should we become green with envy because tax dollars don’t flow to the middle- class potter? If they can’t perceive ideas, why not pick up on the charming one by “Tamba Joe” and put Rauschenberg’s giant tiles into orbit for all the little green visitors from space to see. That at least would be more construc tive than trying to downgrade a great artist who taught us to think before we speak. Anne lies Penz West Vancouver, B.C. The September Suggestions were truly what I have been suggesting to myself. All those years pushing all that clay around, I had been doing things all wrong. I should have worn those plastic gloves. Squeeze please. I should have built my slab roller out of plas tic and plaster to achieve that true flat “slap- the-cement” surface, and why didn’t I make all my own plastic tools? Poly-Ribs for sale? I didn’t save my shards; they could have be come my future sculpture. Five-minute epoxy, too sloppy. And I always forgot to spray my kiln door with Rust-oleum. Guess I did things the hard way. Nancy Pene Upland, Calif. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Not having been afflicted with sore wrists or pains in the hands, I never took much notice of past letters about it in this column, but since I too have developed the same prob lem it’s now come to the forefront of my awareness. I seem to recall letters both pro and con about having an operation to relieve the problem. Talking to different potters at fairs and shows, everyone seems to know someone who also has it. So it might just be more common than most people think. My particular version started about nine months ago with several months of waking up in the middle of the night with my hand sound asleep; so much so that it seemed it would just fall off and remain limp forever. Of course once I’d flex it, the numb hand would come around and I’d forget it. Then after maybe four or five months of this I developed a pain in the back of the hand and a general soreness in the wrist and lower arm. Sometimes, especially after a lot of pro November 1983 1 8 Ceramics Monthly Letters we had great teachers to open doors—Glen a magazine or the style of my pottery will Lukens, Vivika Heino, Laura Andreson, surely cause either to begin its own downfall. “the operation” and have pro and con .views Richard Petterson, Daniel Rhodes. Then the The funk-functional debate is necessary. While about it. Did it help or not, how long was it Natzlers coming from Germany lifted tra I prefer one over the other, I still find racers before you could throw again and (years lat ditional pottery to aesthetic heights, while of each. er) are you still free of pain? And especially Peter Voulkos revolutionized a new approach Chic Lotz I’d like suggestions from those who have dis to form. Marietta, Ga. covered other, more natural solutions. After all, potters are the privileged of the Rick Urban earth, because few occupations are as en The ratio of arty to functional information Sylva, N.C. dearing as clay. Let us not, therefore, go in and photos in CM is approximately 2:1 (as circles about function or funk. It is good to measured by column inches). The ratio of On Conformity and Limitation respect any colleague whose approach is dif my income from arty/functional pieces is 1:95 There are many ways of approaching clay. ferent from ours. That we may not like what (as counted from 1982 receipts). If we look at our extraordinary world, we he does could be our own limitation. Karin Kuhl realize that all this beauty and technology Beatrice Wood Winkler, Manitoba, Canada have been created by man, each of us adding Ojai, Calif. something to the other.