Comments on: Yarg (and come to the show…)

By: Rinee

Rinee — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:38:38 +0000

Cynthia

Congratulations on your show!! Your work is fabulous and every time you share, you inspire. Please don’t stop sharing. I cant do what YOU do (and dont want to-its not for me) but you inspire me to do what I can do and do it better.

Its OK-breathe and pat yourself on the back. You’ve done good!! Mom and dad (and all your friends) are sooooooo proud!

By: robin g

robin g — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:11:33 +0000

Congratulations on your show! I would love to go to the opening, next time…
I also totally agree on sharing your methods as no one else will do what you do. I love to teach what I do as I learn and get inspired by my students as much as they do in a class. They can’t do what I do as it is all in me and ever changing as the work evolves.
Have a great time at your opening.

By: cynthia

cynthia — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:55:52 +0000

Kathleen, Jenn, Ed, thanks as always. Oh, and BTW, welcome, Ellen! I love your work. (she gushed..) I have a theory about glass sculping process that one of these days I’m going to diagram (being a geek) and probably do an essay on, but “creative problem solver” will be right in the middle of it, particularly for pate de verre.

I’ve got a theory about this stuff: You can copy the process, you can copy the craft…but you can’t copy the art. (I suppose you could forge it, but that’s a different story) As long as we’re pushing the ragged edge of your own creativity you don’t have to worry about anybody “stealing” your stuff. Nobody else can keep up with your brain and your hands.

Only a theory, of course…

By: Ellen Abbott

Ellen Abbott — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:05:59 +0000

I’m with you Cynthia. If people think they can copy my work, then more power to ‘em. And I want people to know how hard it is, how many tries it took, if it came out just as planned or needed some (or a lot) of creative cold work. When I teach, I talk about this because when you work in glass, you have to be a creative problem solver.

By: Kathleen Krucoff

Kathleen Krucoff — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:14:12 +0000

Hey Cynthia,

First I’m sorry to hear of the accident with this piece, but I am definitely looking forward to seeing her ‘after’ picture.

And I wish I lived in the area so I could go to the gallery and see your works in person, along with the others on the invite.

I for one am grateful that you share your process. It helps me to know what others go through in their creative process. And I have found that the truly talented are willing to share and teach others. They aren’t afraid that someone will steal something, it seems like they know that their students will go off and make their own spin on what they’ve learned. At least that has been my experience with the classes I was able to take last year with Kent Lauer and Patty Gray. You seem to be that way too and I am grateful for that.

Hope the show goes well and everyone enjoys. And I hope you continue to share your experiences….whatever they may be.

Thanks.

By: Ed LaPlante

Ed LaPlante — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:25:25 +0000

When we started our sign business 25 years ago we would take a job and then run home to try and figure out how to do what we just promised. Doing things that way is a pretty good way to learn to work under pressure and also to learn how to improvise. I gladly share my sign building mistakes, Donna is not quite as open in the glass shop but she is getting better. Hey, none of this stuff is done by robots, that’s the meaning of “hand done”. Like I say often, if this stuff was easy you could buy it at Walmart and then where would we be.

By: jenn

jenn — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:39:54 +0000

I am glad you type about your fumblings and bumblings – makes me feel better about my own- or least that I am in the same boat.

Best of luck with your show- if I were in your neck of the woods I would stop by.