I have a favorite mug I use every day that I value at $6 million, $300,000 more than the highest price ever paid for a piece of contemporary ceramics. My soul is at stake each time I squeeze eloquence out of dirt. My reasons for making pots are complicated and keep changing, but make them I do, and make them I will. My pots are expressions of my individuality they illuminate the world they rage against it they fascinate me with their myriad details. I am neither a ceramic artist nor a sculptor: I am a potter and I am proud. I do not want to make non-functional pots I tried it once and I did not like it, neither the process nor the outcome. I am a maker of mugs, pitchers and plates, among other things. ![]() Putting the Fun Back into Functional Pottery In this essay he attempts to reclaim functional pottery from the critics who have dismissed it. I am a relative newcomer to Garth's writing, but Hewitt has been an avid reader of ceramics periodicals and journals for many years and has been an admirer of Garth's writing even when at odds with some of its content. ![]() This essay was first published in Ceramics Monthly (June 2007) and I think it fits well in this blog because Mark Hewitt has been "Wrestling with Garth" for many years.
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