Fwd: secrets
Lee
From: Lee <cwidde...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 8:16 AM
Subject: Re: secrets
To: Cla...@lsv.ceramics.org
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 11:59 AM, John Britt <johnbrit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> And in an article you were paid for, which included "stolen" glaze recipes,
> (according to your theory of copyright). And why are you complaining about
> this lady who used the information?
>
> Seems to me like she did what was intended?
The shino, I can have ownership in name only, is the shino in this
article titled Linda's Pink Shino.
It is the recipe Linda Sikora got for me at the UofMn from another
grad student. (I assumed it was gleaned off this email list for the
article.) It is a typical Wirt variation, but the original person
also included pink and yellow Mason stain for optional colorant. It
was only pink with salmon pink stain in it. I called it Linda's
Shino, though she never used it.
Related to traditional apprenticeships and my relationship to
my late teacher... The most important things I learned during mine
are not taught in studio arts programs.
I've been thinking of funerals because I heard yesterday, that
one of my elder lodge Brothers passed away. He was an officer in the
Grand Lodge of Minnesota.
My pottery teacher died when I was going back and forth between
Mashiko and Minneapolis. I was in Mashiko when he passed away, and
so could attend the funeral and memorial. I was surprised when I
arrived at the funeral, finding myself being put in the reception
tent with the Japanese apprentices and Euan (the Aussie that studied
at Shimaoka's before me. We greeted the folks coming to pay respect
to our teacher. We were also pallbearers. These are jobs normally
done by the children of the deceased. Apprentices are treated like
the children of the teacher. Of the hundreds of foreign students of
our teacher, Euan and I were the ones present and were allowed to
represent them during the funeral and memorial activities.
Only family and close friends were allowed to
participate in the cremation ceremony. At the end, when the oven was
opened, Euan and I were a part of the "removing of the bones"
ceremony, where you pick out the bones of the remains with iron
chopsticks.. The bones and ashes were on a white refractory blanket.
I was on the right, so I had the honor of picking a bone up off
the bed. I picked the top of the femur, because it was the largest
bone left and I thought I'd have a better chance of holding it with
the iron chopsticks. I delivered it to Euan, who used another pair
of iron chopsticks to take the bone from me and put it in a metal
container. This ceremony is why it is taboo to pass food from
chopstick to chopstick. It is only done with cremation remains. It
is a ceremony that helps you realize, that the person is "really
gone."
Apprenticeships were a lot more than the preservation and
transmitting of technological knowledge. They were a way of life and
included the transmission of many aspects of living, that might even
be illegal to teach at today's University. It is a shame they are
almost impossible to find today.
So, Sunday is Brother Frank's memorial at the Masonic
Scottish Rite Temple. I was with lodge Brothers at a cabin on Gull
Lake when we heard the news of Frank's passing. We participated in
the Frozen Fore up there, all of us dressed in kilts, led by a
Scottish Brother who piped the bag pipes. I'll see them all again,
next Sunday. To send off Frank.
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Lee Love in Minneapolis
http://mingeisota.blogspot.com/
"Ta tIr na n-óg ar chul an tI—tIr dlainn trina chéile"—that is, "The
land of eternal youth is behind the house, a beautiful land fluent
within itself." -- John O'Donohue
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Lee Love in Minneapolis
http://mingeisota.blogspot.com/
"Ta tIr na n-óg ar chul an tI—tIr dlainn trina chéile"—that is, "The
land of eternal youth is behind the house, a beautiful land fluent
within itself." -- John O'Donohue