[Clayart] pissed off mel

[Paul Gerhold]

" There is no point in making fine craft unless it is easily identifiable as your work".  As someone who makes work because of a love of creativity and the process you have my sympathies 

Paul 

Paul

> On Sep 1, 2019, at 11:28 PM, Vince Pitelka <vpitelka at dtccom.net> wrote:
> 
> Signatures - the very first pieces I made in the pot shop at Humboldt State
> College (now Humboldt State University) in 1970-71 just had VP on the
> bottom, but from the start of my own studio business around 1974 I signed V.
> Pitelka.  Over the years, so many people have contacted me because they
> found me via my signature on the bottom of the pot.  The most recent was a
> few years ago - a woman who bought one of my wood stove-top humidifiers at
> the St. Vincent De Paul store in Eureka, CA.  She saw the name on the bottom
> and Googled it, and contacted me via the information on my website.  She
> paid $10 for the humidifier.  We traded a few emails. 
> 
> As far as I am concerned, there is no point in making fine craft unless it
> is easily identifiable as your work.  That might be via a style that is so
> completely unique that no one could mistake it for anyone else's work.  If
> not that, then it only makes sense to always sign or stamp the work.  I
> don't sign work anymore except for the most complex gallery pieces.
> Otherwise I stamp each piece with little homemade bisque stamps with my
> initials. 
> - Vince
> 
> Vince Pitelka, 
> Professor Emeritus, Appalachian Center for Craft, 
> School of Art, Craft & Design, Tennessee Tech University, 
> Now residing Chapel Hill, NC 27516, 
> vpitelka at dtccom.net, 
> www.vincepitelka.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clayart [mailto:clayart-bounces at lists.clayartworld.com] On Behalf Of
> Antoinette Badenhorst
> Sent: Sunday, September 1, 2019 5:02 PM
> To: Clayart international pottery discussion forum
> <clayart at lists.clayartworld.com>
> Subject: Re: [Clayart] pissed off mel
> 
> My signature is as big as the base allows it to be, sometimes very small,
> sometimes big and bold. The value of signature were proved a few weeks ago
> when someone were looking for my early 2000s pitfired pots and found one on
> ebay. She was very proud of it. I am wondering how it landed on ebay....
> 
> Best wishes,
> Antoinette Badenhorst
> www.porcelainbyAntoinette.com
> www.TeachinArt.com
> 
> 
>> On Aug 31, 2019, at 3:07 PM, mel jacobson <melpots at mail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> it is an old story.  wonderful pots, with scratched/stupid unreadable 
>> signatures on the bottom.
>> i hate it.
>> 
>> wonderful work, worth being in a a museum...and i am going to throw 
>> them into lake minnetonka.  seven pots...world class and the potter 
>> did not have the confidence, or the brains to sign the pots for the 
>> future.
>> 
>> LISTEN TO ME....SIGN YOUR POTS LEGIBLY. USE A STAMP, USE A LOGO, USE 
>> SOMETHING...BUT DON'T SCRATCH CRAP ON THE BOTTOM.  i even did charcoal 
>> rubbings and it means nothing.
>> mel
>> seven potters missed out of being represented at the AMOCA in the 
>> permanent collection, because they were either stupid or lazy.
>> 
>> website: www.melpots.com
>> 
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