[JBaymore]

If for some reason clay simply did not exist...........


What would you be doing if you were not making pots?



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[trina]

I guess I would be doing what I am doing at the moment... Painting.... T

[ayjay]

Fishing, birdwatching, photographing Dragonflies, or maybe I'd have made more of an effort to master watercolour.

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[Lucille Oka]

If clay did not exist, we would not exist. I wouldn't be. Very esoteric, very left bank, very Jean Paul Sartre, I know, but based upon your parameters, true.

[Chris Campbell]

Probably writing a book or painting ... Painting is where I started and I do have a book plot ready for writing. Actually I have had this plot rattling around in my head for about 15 years and it won't go away ...

[Nelly]

Chris Campbell, on 18 December 2012 - 06:40 PM, said:

Probably writing a book or painting ... Painting is where I started and I do have a book plot ready for writing. Actually I have had this plot rattling around in my head for about 15 years and it won't go away ...

A lounge singer like Michelle Pffiefer stretched across a piano! That is what I would do if I wasn't in my current job and had pottery as my hobby.

Nelly

[Mark C.]

Diving taking underwater photos-traveling-gardening-Tuna fishing-wreck diving-hiking-biking-playing with cats-gardening-building-crabbing-hot springs exploring-dessert trips-camping-taking fish pictures-reading-
wait thats what I'm doing as well as making pots-I guess I would be ashes underwater about 30 miles offshore and dead as well.
my god its my thousand post as well-my time flies
Mark

[Diane Puckett]

This week, making more holiday cookies. Otherwise, more gardening, hiking, photography, playing with Buddy the Wonderdog.

[Diane Puckett]

Nelly, on 18 December 2012 - 06:45 PM, said:

Chris Campbell, on 18 December 2012 - 06:40 PM, said:

Probably writing a book or painting ... Painting is where I started and I do have a book plot ready for writing. Actually I have had this plot rattling around in my head for about 15 years and it won't go away ...

A lounge singer like Michelle Pffiefer stretched across a piano! That is what I would do if I wasn't in my current job and had pottery as my hobby.

Nelly

Sounds like a good retirement plan!

[Pres]

JBaymore, on 18 December 2012 - 01:44 PM, said:

If for some reason clay simply did not exist...........


What would you be doing if you were not making pots?



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Big selection here as I am retired. In the summers, kayaking, bicycle, reading, camping, and late night xbox with sister. In winter, total gym, painting, drawing, computer animation, reading, hunting and tv.

[Denice]

Mark C., on 18 December 2012 - 07:19 PM, said:

Diving taking underwater photos-traveling-gardening-Tuna fishing-wreck diving-hiking-biking-playing with cats-gardening-building-crabbing-hot springs exploring-dessert trips-camping-taking fish pictures-reading-
wait thats what I'm doing as well as making pots-I guess I would be ashes underwater about 30 miles offshore and dead as well.
my god its my thousand post as well-my time flies
Mark

Congratulations on your 1000th post, I have only a third of that number keep up the good posts. Denice

[Denice]

JBaymore, on 18 December 2012 - 12:44 PM, said:

If for some reason clay simply did not exist........... Because of my MS I have been planning for this, the clay may not disappear but my physical abilities might. So far I have been growing, drying and storing gourds, I like the natural appeal that gourds have like clay and there are many different types of gourd art. If clay disappeared today I would keep doing the things I already do but expand my interest in them. My husband restores show cars and I help him with color and design but I have been thinking about doing a art car on my own. Denice


What would you be doing if you were not making pots?



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[SShirley]

I'd be in a catatonic state.

Seriously, I would be drafting and/or making wedding cakes like I had done for years. It's depressing to work so hard to make something beautiful only to have it devoured before your eyes. That's why I like pottery. If a customer tried to eat it they would break a tooth.

[TJR]

I would fake my own death and go live on the Coromandel Penninsula in New Zealand, as I would have nothing to live for.My Grade 3 teacher Mrs. Woodrow told me I couldn't sing, so the lounge act idea is OUT!
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[Marcia Selsor]

I would be cooking from a huge garden of fresh vegetables and herbs.
Probably also I would be painting and drawing as I have done since I was a kid.


Marcia

[Mark C.]

TJR, on 19 December 2012 - 12:21 PM, said:

I would fake my own death and go live on the Coromandel Penninsula in New Zealand, as I would have nothing to live for.My Grade 3 teacher Mrs. Woodrow told me I couldn't sing, so the lounge act idea is OUT!
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There are some good potters out there on the coromandel Penn in New Zealand. I visited them in the 90's. Even more potters near Nelson on south Island-one is an old childhhood friend who resides there. I used to subscribe to a magazine called New Zealand pottery. Heres a factiod NZ used to not have any imports so if you wanted say a mug the local potter was the one who made it-it was that way in up until the early 90s-Potters really did well until imports invaded and collapsed the made local market-about 1/3 went out of business I'm told.
Mark

[justanassembler]

I'd be making with something else--I'm an object maker primarily, clay happens to have my attention in this moment.

[TJR]

Mark C., on 19 December 2012 - 06:46 PM, said:

TJR, on 19 December 2012 - 12:21 PM, said:

I would fake my own death and go live on the Coromandel Penninsula in New Zealand, as I would have nothing to live for.My Grade 3 teacher Mrs. Woodrow told me I couldn't sing, so the lounge act idea is OUT!
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There are some good potters out there on the coromandel Penn in New Zealand. I visited them in the 90's. Even more potters near Nelson on south Island-one is an old childhhood friend who resides there. I used to subscribe to a magazine called New Zealand pottery. Heres a factiod NZ used to not have any imports so if you wanted say a mug the local potter was the one who made it-it was that way in up until the early 90s-Potters really did well until imports invaded and collapsed the made local market-about 1/3 went out of business I'm told.
Mark

Mark;
Sad to say, but the pottery /craft industry is pretty much dead. I was there 3 years ago on a teacher exchange to Aus. Holidayed in NZ. first. China has really done a number on a lot of industries in both countries. Relestate prices are very high, as foreigners are buying up all the good land. Bendigo pottery in Aus., which was a huge industry is basically a museum.Sad.
TJR.