Try Your Hand at Pottery

Hello USNaWR--

I am one member of a great staff at a private ceramics studio in Cincinnati Ohio. We are thrilled that USNaWR and Mr. Terrell decided to highlight our favorite hobby/career in your magazine and online! We all can see that the world and its economies will continue to get increasingly more intertwined through electronic connections- guaranteeing that we will spend more and more time in office spaces on computers. This also suggests to me that even though the most recent advances in technology also lends to increasing an individual's choice in method and appearance of data interfacing, there is still a limit to that activity, an underlying "Fit to Grid." I understand that those limits will continue to evolve beyond our current comprehension. However, I still believe that there will be level of experiential removal, no matter how slight, that will set those life activities apart from humanly involved contact. I feel that this overload of illusionary based working and living will create a new value for reality. This urgency for true experience will swing far even into the most basic of actions. It will become important once again to inhabit the world in an analog, a flexible, an organic manner. Clay is inherently so and will take on all comers---

Thanks again for your attention and hope to see you in a studio space soon

(As the pendulum swings back… we’ll be still be here)

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http://www.funkefiredarts.com/

Kirk Mayhew of OH 2:01PM January 27, 2009