[Clayart] cookie cutters and commercial stamps

[Carolyn Curran]

Hi Barry, I'm not "upset", but I do like to get discussions going on
various  clay matters, esp. now that I am without a studio to play in!
The proliferation of pottery aids is just another example  of  the results
of rapid information sharing in our world of instant communication.   Heck,
in the olden  days when I began my life with pottery,  my teachers were
mainly  books and CM--books published years before and CM arriving by snail
mail each month.   And now  when there's a new  idea that starts to take
hold, suddenly  all the pottery suppliers get on the bandwagon by making
their own version of it.  (You can really see that in the many new ads for
ready  made rollers and stamps these days.).   I don't really know...  Is
this tendency a matter of spoon feeding the multitudes  so that they don't
go beyond the easy solutions to clay questions?  Or is a stamp or roller
just another tool to be used in one's own personal way?   I know one very
successful and experienced potter whose "thing" is  primarily slab built
pottery with commercial stamps and roller decoration,  but she  "makes the
pots her own", as the late Regis Brodie used to say during his crit
sessions at Skidmore.   And isn't that what we potters really strive for?
Carolyn
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