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    Quote Originally Posted by Frank&Earnest View Post
    Quite interesting work, thanks for sharing. I have appreciated also the integrity of your position as regards art and your works in it. Your position seems to entail that you do not name your pieces, as this would imply a suggestion of what you see in them and what other people should see in them. Am I correct?
    Wow...any more nice comments like this and I wont be able to fit through the shed door to do some work! Thanks though, its always good to get positive feedback.

    Your right about the names. I used to at the start, as you 'had to'.
    However, after a short period of time, no more names.
    Causes a problem with the galleries, as how else do they tell each piece apart if they have no name? Damn Dualisms! They have to manage though with the peculiarities of us workers of art.



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    Well, then, to restore a bit of balance and allow you to fit through the door again... the flipside of not conveying a "message" with your work is that the viewer has no opportunity to appreciate how well your work does indeed convey it and feel gratified for sharing your vision. The purchaser can only pick up your work if attracted to it, like s/he would pick up a pebble nicely polished by nature, whatever the amount of work you put into it to take it to that point. The same as with Mongrell's stump above, for example, and he does not call himself an artist. Maybe he should.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Frank&Earnest View Post
    Well, then, to restore a bit of balance and allow you to fit through the door again... the flipside of not conveying a "message" with your work is that the viewer has no opportunity to appreciate how well your work does indeed convey it and feel gratified for sharing your vision. The purchaser can only pick up your work if attracted to it, like s/he would pick up a pebble nicely polished by nature, whatever the amount of work you put into it to take it to that point. The same as with Mongrell's stump above, for example, and he does not call himself an artist. Maybe he should.
    Here's some more balance:

    'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
    Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
    What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
    Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
    Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
    What's in a name? that which we call a rose
    By any other name would smell as sweet;
    So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
    Retain that dear perfection which he owes
    Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
    And for that name which is no part of thee
    Take all myself.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Frank&Earnest View Post
    The purchaser can only pick up your work if attracted to it, like s/he would pick up a pebble nicely polished by nature, whatever the amount of work you put into it to take it to that point.
    Your Spot on!
    I dont have a name for my Sculpture/Art...because I personally dont have a name for it. Useing your analogy of a seaside pebble, thats how I look at the pieces I assist to form, what would be the use of naming an attractive seaside pebble? Im just doing what the piece wants. Sometimes I do put my intentions into the piece, but again, no name could label that intention. If someone likes the piece for its attractiveness, for its form, for its 'balance', thats what the piece needs. If someone needs a name to appreciate a piece of Sculpture they will probably buy someone elses...thats fine. Tis Allllll Gooooood.
    Mongrell is most definetly an artist.



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    Here's some of my latest stuff-it still needs the finishing(wax), and some discreet metal base-hope by that time I'll have learnt how to use my new camera(what a toy!), and take some better pics:
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    Quote Originally Posted by Artesano View Post
    Here's some of my latest stuff-it still needs the finishing(wax), and some discreet metal base-hope by that time I'll have learnt how to use my new camera(what a toy!), and take some better pics:
    Beautiful work Artesano, it's early morning where I am, the sun's just above the horizon, I've just made a cup of tea. Your work has a spiritual quality to it, like an angel asending, what an inspirational start to the day.

    Thanks

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    Artesano,
    thank you
    you have just made my day as well,
    absolutely stunning

    by the way, when you get the hang of your new camera
    could you post a few pics of where you live
    Toledo is a pretty special place

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    nice artesano, what tools did you manly use
    smile and the world will smile with you

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    Thanks, guys.Underfoot-I live in the county of Toledo, not in the city itself; no problems taking some pics, of course; you were absolutely right about never carving pine again, I'm so sorry I didn't use some decent timber for this piece!...Fortunately now I can have all the ash I want, and at a very nice price as well, and with the posibility to do all the machining myself, which means being able to chose color and grain when gluing the wood

    SPIRIT-its made the old way-gouges and mallet, only for the finish I used a Makita mini belt sander(belt is 9mm. wide),and even then I had to do most of the sanding by hand
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    Great work Artesano. That piece has something special about it, very pleasing lines.

    Terry

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    Love it, Artesano, and would like very much to see it finished and placed in a complimentary setting, but what I would have really loved is to have seen you developing it from the piece of wood, to understand your thought process behind it, something like the way Underfoot delighted us with his winged statue's WIP.

    At least,please please please, could you tell whether you saw it complete in your mind or it developed under your gouge, did you join partially shaped pieces or start from a square/cylinder... did you name it?
    Thanks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Frank&Earnest View Post
    ..At least,please please please, could you tell whether you saw it complete in your mind or it developed under your gouge, did you join partially shaped pieces or start from a square/cylinder... did you name it?
    Thanks.

    I did a model in plastilin(is this the word in English?), I find it much easier than drawing 3D stuff, than, in the process of carving I can do some improvisation, if I feel like it, but the model is important to me as it saves time and costly mistakes later.Also, when you have the finished model, the idea you liked so much" in your mind", may not look all that great, you know...I started from a 15X15 cm. piece of pine (sorry about the metric mesures, guys), the laminated kind used in construction-what about art made of working-class materials, still thinking about the name...
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    newish piece, made from

    red cedar, sewing machine, typewriter, photocopier, blender, hairdryer,
    vacuum cleaner and a toaster

    it's about 4x lifesize

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    Cliff.
    If you find a post of mine that is missing a pic that you'd like to see, let me know & I'll see if I can find a copy.

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    Love it

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