General: March 2008 Archives

It is possible you could be reading this from one of two places, you could be reading this blog from a link received from the original site at http://www.ClayMentality.net/Blog, or you could be coming from the new location at http://art.livecurt.net. Either way, you have reached my new centralized art blog.

This new blog has all of the entries from the old ceramic blog, but will also begin having entries about other forms of art which I participate in. In my attempts to become a  more well rounded person, this blog will  serve as a public  journal of my adventures in art. This blog will probably remain as calm as it always has been, but at least now it will be all together. This is by no means a truly active blog, but it has its purpose.

One of the primary objectives of this blog will be for me to resolve some internal conflicts with myself and discover some of the meaning behind some of the symbols I use in my art. I have never really had a real reason for pursuing art, it has just called to me, which makes establishing reasons for some of the things that my sub-conscious mind pulls forward a bit of a challenge.

Welcome to the Art Blog at http://art.livecurt.net.

I can not continue seeing ceramics as an art for myself. I enjoyed the time I spent with sculpture, but it just isn't working for me. My vision isn't in the three dimensional forms now. I very much want to return to functional forms. Looking back in my collection of inspirational images, they are all functional. I like making things that people can actually use.

If I pursue ceramics as a career, I want to set up a shop where people come in to me and place an order for exactly what they want in the way of functional ware. I want to hand make bowls, plates, mugs or whatever for people. I want people to come into my shop and tell me exactly what they want, make a set that is uniquely theirs. One of the most important things I want to do is be able to give people the option to expand their sets or replace broken/lost pieces just by coming back to me.

I want to make functional ware because it is important to real people.