It was, right from the beginning. I took a course in Asian art history as an undergraduate at Santa Barbara around the same time that I started making pots. This course taught me about Wabi-sabi, an attitude toward making things in the simplest, most basic way in order to let nature be a part of the creation.
That appealed to my personality, because I’m not a careful, fastidious type of craftsman. I also thought that these Wabi-sabi forms were beautiful. Were you mocking the self-importance of those movements — Minimalism, Color Field painting, etc.? My work was often read as disrespect, but actually, I was totally enamored by Color Field painting.
In school, we took a stand that we didn’t approve of painting — and Color Field painting was what was going on — but I thought it was beautiful. In order to have the conversation, though, it was more productive to say that you hated it and hated painting — you hated any pretty colors, any de Kooning–esque brushstrokes. Where does your ... more.
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