Dear Charlie, When and where did your grandmother live? Do you know who made her original pipe?
Well done! Very nice proportions! SL
Most everything that is posted on this blog is wonderful & exceptional work. But I'm amazed that so few people bother to take a moment to post any comments. Why is this so? I hear lots of comments about this web site via email and in person, but no one bothers to put thier thoughts and appreciations in words for the artists to read. As a craftsman of 30 years, I know how it is to display your work before others and receive little or no feedback. It made me think that my work was unappreciated by everyone except the few that bought something...only to learn later that people who's opinions I respected were telling others, (but not me) how much they liked what I did. Now that I'm a greybeard I'm not dependant on praise....but you folks out there need to express yourselves to the artists, most especially the young artists who need not only your patronage but your praise. Quit sitting on your thumbs!
When Robert Weil started collecting images for the Contemporary Makers book in 1973 the challenge to record contemporary gun work was daunting. Gathering material was difficult and time consuming. Few makers thought that there was any value in published documentation of their work. Electronic publishing has changed all that. Having a website or having one's work available to view on the internet is becoming a necessity. In spite of all the potential to finally have a true overview of what's being produced by the artists of today, a great deal of work still remains covered up and basically unknown. Our role is to make an effort to document some portion of what’s going on today. To comment on the established makers and to uncover the unknown. We welcome your comments and suggestions and look to you our readers to make us aware of the talented makers out there. Art and Jan Riser Robert Weil and The Makers
Dear Charlie,
ReplyDeleteWhen and where did your grandmother live? Do you know who made her original pipe?
Well done! Very nice proportions! SL
Most everything that is posted on this blog is wonderful & exceptional work. But I'm amazed that so few people bother to take a moment to post any comments. Why is this so? I hear lots of comments about this web site via email and in person, but no one bothers to put thier thoughts and appreciations in words for the artists to read.
As a craftsman of 30 years, I know how it is to display your work before others and receive little or no feedback. It made me think that my work was unappreciated by everyone except the few that bought something...only to learn later that people who's opinions I respected were telling others, (but not me) how much they liked what I did. Now that I'm a greybeard I'm not dependant on praise....but you folks out there need to express yourselves to the artists, most especially the young artists who need not only your patronage but your praise.
Quit sitting on your thumbs!
At the very least ask some questions! SL
We will ask Charlie these questions next time we talk to him. He does not have a computer. JR
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