{"id":345,"date":"2021-06-06T21:45:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T01:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=345"},"modified":"2021-06-06T21:45:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T01:45:45","slug":"6-summer-summit-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2021\/06\/06\/6-summer-summit-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"#6 summer summit 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I remember after my father died when I packed up all the pots I had made that my parents had saved at their loft over the years. I was surprised to see the beginnings of forms and motifs some of which I am still trying to capture. When I think back to those early attempts at making pots it’s like being pre-literate. I didn’t have the words to describe how a pot filled space, what it’s volume was, or why it was enticing. I often wonder where did the ideas come from. In a few cases I can define a specific influence. I recollect a dinner with Robert Ellison when I was in high school. He showed my parents and I some of his George Ohr pots. My dad said “I remember the things Catherine made after I showed her Picasso’s ceramics. I can\u2019t wait to see what she makes after seeing these twisted and inventive pots.” Today in the studio I was tired of my go-to solutions. Instead I wanted to work as if I was digging potatoes — my hands feeling in the dirt without seeing , yet finding the hard shape of the prized new potato.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Children make up the best songs, anyway,\u201d he [Tom Waits] says. \u201cBetter than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don\u2019t care if they lose it; they\u2019ll just make another one.\u201d This openness is what every artist needs. Be ready to receive the inspiration when it comes; be ready to let it go when it vanishes. He believes that if a song \u201creally wants to be written down, it\u2019ll stick in my head. If it wasn\u2019t interesting enough for me to remember it, well, it can just move along and go get in someone else\u2019s song.\u201d \u201cSome songs,\u201d he has learned, \u201cdon\u2019t want to be recorded.\u201d You can\u2019t wrestle with them or you\u2019ll only scare them off more. Trying to capture them sometimes \u201cis trying to trap birds.\u201d Fortunately, he says, other songs come easy, like \u201cdigging potatoes out of the ground.\u201d Others are sticky and weird, like \u201cgum found under an old table.\u201d Clumsy and uncooperative songs may only be useful \u201cto cut up as bait and use \u2019em to catch other songs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-From Elizabeth Gilbert\u2019s terrific [Link:] 2002 GQ<\/em> profile of Tom Waits<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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