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Comment by Jenny Reeves Johnson on September 27, 2013 at 9:00am
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Me too. !
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Comment by Denice E. Demuth on September 27, 2013 at 8:58am
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Jenny I felt the same as you when the forum changed it's approach and included other areas of clay, I even thought of dropping out of the forum. I have been a Cone 6 fan since I read Richard Zakin's first book in the early 70"s (Cone 6 rebel in College). I decided to give it a try. So far not much has changed, the discussions and research are still Cone 6, occasionally a bunch of raku or reduction photos will be posted. I can live with that. Denice
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Denice, if we don't keep the theme cone 6, won't the site lose some of its uniqueness and purpose? I'm easy about it because its great to see what everyone is doing additional to cone 6. But it is pretty exciting to get cone 6 work and techniques/processes out there. No one can deny the virtues of low fire color or cone 10 reduction, and other atmospheric firing- but judging from where cone 6 was 20 years ago and where it is now, we are on a roll - I'm anticipating human drive will take it to uncharted journeys! That is probably why we are all signed up here. hmmm, thinking out loud.
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Beautiful and large mural, people post photos of low fire work on this forum. As long as you list the cone that the mural is fired at it's good. I wish potters would give a technical description, the cone, oxidation, reduction, raku ect. When this was only Cone 6 electric it didn't matter, now that we have a little of everything it's more of a guessing game. Denice
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I feel that everything we make in clay, with integrity- could last 4000 years, or so. This was a kind of "mantra" during the six year project. The oral history done on this mural is poignant in places, the "everyone" person (200+) getting their hands in clay found a connection. Whew, it was lovely. I would not hesitate to do it again.
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Jenny, what a truly amazing tribute! Totally impressed, and know the community and others are as well!
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I completely understand and sympathize. My mural work was all low, cone 05 firing so I did not include them on this web site. If you google my name some of the sites for the last mural, the Mt. Shasta Commmunity Peace Mural, will come up. This one was an ALL community mural, I orchestrated it, whew, it is a powerful piece as it was in response to 911.
We'll keep in touch.
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Unfortunately I don't have any pictures up right now. I have tried, George Lewter spent several hours on the phone with me and he couldn't understand the problem either. I had photos on the Ceramic Monthly Forum, but they updated a month ago and lost all of my photos. I'm not a computer guru so this is very frustrating to me. My son helped me the photos before, but I'm not sure when he'll be back in town. I haven't given up I have a birthday coming up hopefully I can get someone to help me then. Denice
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I am learning how to navigate this site... Denice, where could I see some photos of your work. I have done some clay murals as well, we may have a lot in common.
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I started in clay in high school that was 45 years ago, I can't say I haven't reach a high bar in quality, I just didn't make it with the work like yours. I started making tiles about 12 years ago and now I make large murals and fountains. I just admire good work when I see it and know how hard you had to work to get to this point. Denice
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