Making jump from carpenter to full-time potter: In 1973, I bought my first potter’s wheel. Before that, I added a little greenhouse on the front of our house where I set up my potter’s wheel. It allowed me to make pots without the necessity of going to the pottery shop at the Art Institute […]
Monthly Archives: October 2020
Why I do what I do: Form and Function or Making Space and Connections I came across this quote not long ago in Jordan Peterson’s book 12 Rules For Life, and the perspective struck me. It is shorter than the original quote, but this part coincides with what I have thought for a long. It […]
One of the first questions that every artist has to ask themselves when they start making things to sell is; how do I sign my work? It took me the better part of a year to make that decision. In the fall of 1971, I had what I call a run-in with God. […]