Developing craft takes time
1 August 2008 1 Comment
From PotteryBlog.com, a video of Ira Glass talking about the years that it takes to master your craft:
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This is something I know first hand now but needed to hear as a student. I don’t remember hearing it as a student. As a student in the arts today, theory and concept take precedence. There needs to be balance in training between craft and theory for an educational experience to be well-rounded.
All this can be difficult in such an impatient culture as ours.
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It’s still encouraging to hear it. In my profession (architecture) we are still young at 40. I recognize that it simply takes a volume of work to get good at doing it. Happens in my avocation (clay) quite a bit faster – only because I do five or six architectures in a year, a dozen if I’m lucky – and on a good Saturday can create fifteen or twenty pieces. But it still takes a whole lotta pieces…