Wednesday, 6 August 2014

The MET Presents

Edmund de Waal in conversation at the MET
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Extracts that resonate with me and my work; along the recording time-line, approximately:
- 11:50: 'a collection of pots in which nonetheless each container retains a very different and very distinct meaning'
- 12:45: 'pots are about making volume in space, pots aren't about profiles, ... they're about insides ... about volume, about space' 
- 35.45: 'repetition is very interesting, is fascinating if you make things, if you’re a musician … as soon as you put one thing next to another you’ve got a gap, you’ve got a caesura, you’ve got a pause … something that happens between them … if you keep going then you have to deal with time'
- 26.45: 'find the beauty in that seriality'
- 46.15: 'about identity … who are you, where do you come from'
and
- 46.40: 'how can you be true to who you are'
both in a very different (absolute inverted?) sense to ‘spirit of place’ in an earlier post. Also ‘importance of “object”’
- 50.00: 'a huge traffic in the world of objects, which is endless'
- 57.50: 'identity … that’s me'
- 1.00.45: last image of the Turner Contemporary installation, another example of ‘spirit of place’, an installation in tune with ‘spirit of place’
- 1.08.00: the wonder, the beauty in making ceramics is that you work with chance, have to deal with a loss of control
'accepting the humanity of the flaw, of a thing that goes wrong'