Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Experimenting with Different Styles

I really enjoyed reading today's featured article from Ceramic Arts Daily. It is an interview with an established artist who seems to have abruptly changed his style. Here's the link: Ceramic Arts Daily's Interview with Nick Joerling

I agree that it's important to keep experimenting in the studio. One's medium should be considered one's voice or   possibly one's "vocabulary" as one of my former professors, Dave Williamson, would say. It always helps to consider a message or viewpoint to convey in your work and then ask yourself how you could communicate that using your "vocabulary."

Another thing to consider when designing new work is a quote that I read several years ago made by a ceramics professor who would challenge her students by telling them "Show me a pot that I've never seen before." Unfortunately, I can not remember that professor's name. If anyone else is familiar with the quote, please let me know the name of the author so that I may give them proper credit.