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Panel: Marks Matter in the Material World Make sure you get proper credit for your work. Marking your work is essential for future identification. This panel will consider the importance of marking and documenting the marks you place on your work. A curator, a dealer, and a collector will share their points of view. Speaker Bruce Pepich Moderator Donald Clark Speaker Jeffrey Spahn Speaker Rebecca Sive
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Marks Matter in the Material World
Akio Takamori
Cornwall Bridge Pottery
MS ? MS?
ONE, TWO
THREE,FOUR
Matthew Metz
Lisa Orr
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The matter of marks, figuratively as well as literally.
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It would be great if every potter left her mark, literally.
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Especially, when you want to enjoy the work over time and observe how it developed, and
she grew over time.
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Then, you’d know so much more than you would otherwise.
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Alas, most times, it seems, potters don’t work this way.
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Check-her-out, anyway: she’s wonderful.
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I’ve mulled-over this conundrum and concluded that many potters want us to imagine what might happen next.
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Here is a vignette of one such potter, (whose work is utterly different, today.)
And here is a vignette of another potter’s work, equally glorious and
changing gently over time.
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And here is why the lack of a mark may not matter at
all!
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And check-her-out again, albeit in another medium.
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So, in this imperfect -- but beautiful-- clay world, I recommend developing your own marking system.
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Here’s one.
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And here’s another.
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While you celebrate the potters who do make it easier for us to enjoy and know their
work.
MarksMatter
“There is no need to sign,
people will attribute my best pots to me and the bad ones to someone
else.” - Shoji Hamada.
themarksproject.org
