Bob Hicks, the writer for The Oregonian who did a couple great write-ups about the anagama firing, wrote the following at the end of one of his articles. I think it is wonderful!
"So maybe it’s just a pot. Maybe the Greek guys were right. Yet it strikes me, looking into the maw of this volatile and strangely comforting furnace, that our foolhardy canoe slipping downriver into the current of an unruly past is bringing back something that the future needs. A sense of the vitality of the frankly physical. The nitty-gritty joy of sheer cussedness. The primal and transformative power of clay and blood and bone and raw human doing-ness that can’t be conveniently abstracted away by the intellectual arbiters of an overcrowded lockstep world. The fugitive pleasures of fun. The potters, the weavers, the carvers, the hand people, are our wild children and our pioneers and our roots. Let them feed the fires. Let them float the canoes. Likely as not, we’ll be needing what they know. ~Bob Hicks, freelance writer for The Oregonian.
Feed the fires, float the canoes......
6 comments:
What a beautiful image to go with the wonderful Bob Hicks quote. I wanted to check out the super moon from the other end of the world but we've had a few days of cloud and rain and I couldn't see it. But last night I dreamed about it, so I feel I've seen it. See, you have influence from afar.
Carol, I love that you dreamed the moon when you couldn't see it! How magical is that?? I always relish your thoughtful comments.
That quote is pure poetry to me. Just lovely. I would love to cut and paste it somewhere, but not sure where yet. May I use it, perhaps on my blog, with your permission? And thanks for listing my blog on your blog list! Will you be at the Focus Book Arts conference in June? I will. Hope to see you there.
I agree, Jackie. I think those of us who work with our hands really "get" it. I know so many people who are deciding to post it.
I think it would be fine, but I'll get back to you with a link to Bob so you can ask him. I'm sure it will be OK as long as you give credit for it.
Absolutely it would be credited properly. He should be a poet as well as a writer for the Oregonian...
And I am so embarrassed 'cause I think I never got back to you with the link, did I? Life gets so crazy at times....
I agree....so lovely.
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