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page 8
Stone Riley
Greybeard's Rant page 8
(my real artist's statement)
(C) 2005 by Stone Riley
And here's another thing. Don't try too hard. Be yourself and do the work each time the best you can in that moment, within whatever limitations then apply.
One of my sisters has a very fine painted dish collection. She travels quite a bit and everywhere she goes, if she gets a chance, she looks for locally produced moderately priced blue and white tableware. All sorts. The collection is fascinating.
I mean to say, of course the stuff has certain limitations. It's all blue and white. It's all tableware. It's all locally and inexpensively produced.
But! Well, for one thing my sister has an eye for grace. I'm sure she's willing to sort through a crate of nearly identical saucers or bowls looking for the nicest few.
And! Within each more or less traditional Mexican or Chinese or Arabic motif, perhaps somewhat familiar to you from books and artifact displays, each pattern speaks in a voice you haven't heard before. Each thing is new and not a copy. Holding every plate up to the light, you can almost see in it the muddy workplace and the worker's eyes watching carefully as the pigment goes onto the clay. You feel lucky to be holding it too.
Each piece is the contribution of some painter's moment to the human race.
May we all do our work in that spirit.
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