As artists we are especially tactile beings. When I was reading this article I kept thinking about critiques and how the first thing we always do is pick things up and look at the feet or touch the surface of the glaze. The author was saying that the tactile experience of things helps us to understand them in a way that nothing else can and depriving people, artists, of that experience is jeopardizing on multiple levels. There is a part of the article that the author is talking about a friends house and the variety of the art and belongings that they have in their home. He is talking about the lines that define and place art and objects under certain labels, or some artifacts above others, being erased and this allowing him to appreciate these objects of creation. I find this state of mind/observation and experience admirable and refreshing. I was excited that the author talked about the interaction between glazed and exposed parts of the pot, how powerful juxtaposing joined and uncovered parts of a vessel can be.
"Maybe we learn more from our mistakes of touch," I thought this summed up the article pretty well. I thought about this in regards not only to objects that exist as completed works of art in museums but also in the process of creating.
-Dehmie
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