Thank you for the basket image judy. It is so, a very small one.
I didn't get too involved in the craft versus technique dilemma, but it
amused that such turned up unrelated in my inbox, from someone on the local
scene.
2009/6/29 Judy Prince <[log in to unmask]>
> Happily for me, I tune out discussions of abstract opposites such as craft
> vs art, or content vs technique. I guess it's time to wrestle it out.
> Here
> goes:
> Poet needs BIG BASKET of tricks. How and when to use BIG BASKET
> bits=poet's
> art.
>
> The poet you quote has a small basket of tricks. [S]he is convinced that
> the small basket's not a small basket. [S]he therefore limits her art, and
> [s]he blames everyone else for her lack.
>
> There now, that didnae hurt too bad.
>
> Thanks for the re-memories, Dave.
>
> joodles
>
>
> 2009/6/28 David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > Waal, ok, then, joodle-slump. This came in my inbox the other day,
> > considering a discussion that's been circulating hereabouts I had grin
> > (till
> > my teeth bled). I think Tim Allen might permit himself a wry smile:
> >
> > The Leicester Workshop
> >
> > Don’t talk of content when I want technique
> > or treat my words as if I’m not allowed
> > to string them along the line, or make a break;
> > what I want to say, I know;
> > I might need help with how.
> >
> > It’s craft I crave, not criticism.
> > I wish to make a table and four chairs
> > at least honestly, aspire to Ernest Gimson,
> > and, if my art is good,
> > from solid native wood.
> >
> > Examine the precision of my joints
> > show how to make them clean and tighter
> > I am not here for scoring points
> > but to marry grain with grain
> > using a smoothing plane
> >
> > or a sharp chisel and a well oiled maul.
> > You see, the timber's mine, from my green woods
> > where some are stunted others tall
> > but where I chose my balks,
> > strip off their pungent barks.
> >
> > Let’s make a unity of craft and art,
> > dear grafters, help to a common purpose,
> > engineer the precision part,
> > build our White House[i]
> > for the common muse.
> >
> >
>
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David Bircumshaw
"Nothing can be done in the face
of ordinary unhappiness" - PP
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