Metalsmithing Glasssmithing Failure Feeling
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 9:20 am
Hello.
The following is a semi-rant:
Maybe it's the end of summer duldrums or something, but I have this feeling of not having gotten terribly much metalwise or glasswise this summer. Metalwise I did the big forged raised goblet thing, which got a good deal of kvelling, but now they've whisked it off to promote their f^&%ing crap "Israel Bonding Experience" which I didn't want them to do. My sculpture is being used for a purpose I didn't intend. Now I've started raising a bike helmet over a T-stake, which seems to me to be going nowhere, and I've run out of barstock to use, having used all of it for the now abused sculpture.
I was very enthusiastic about glass at the beginning, but now my pieces keep breaking and I'm screwing them up, and I don't have the same feel for glass as I do with metals. (My mum is obviously furious that I'm not in love with glass like I am with metal) Also, I can't practice at home like I can do with metals, I have to pay to use the college studio, and the guy isn't often there, and I need to be walked through every piece anyhow. Pieces I make their are always very huge and thick and clunky anyhow, and while I was in Israel my mum gave away all my good thin elegant pieces to grandparents in England, so all I see are the thick ugly early glasses and birds. This gets me way down, like not being able to see 3 weeks of ironwork and silverwork and knowing they are being misused.
sorry about this rant, it's not entirely armoury.
Merry Being,
Happy Hammering,
I feel a bit better and I'm gonna go out and work on something while listening to Beethoven's Messe in C Major second movement and Iowa. Both songs calm me down.
Thanks for reading,
Archie
The following is a semi-rant:
Maybe it's the end of summer duldrums or something, but I have this feeling of not having gotten terribly much metalwise or glasswise this summer. Metalwise I did the big forged raised goblet thing, which got a good deal of kvelling, but now they've whisked it off to promote their f^&%ing crap "Israel Bonding Experience" which I didn't want them to do. My sculpture is being used for a purpose I didn't intend. Now I've started raising a bike helmet over a T-stake, which seems to me to be going nowhere, and I've run out of barstock to use, having used all of it for the now abused sculpture.
I was very enthusiastic about glass at the beginning, but now my pieces keep breaking and I'm screwing them up, and I don't have the same feel for glass as I do with metals. (My mum is obviously furious that I'm not in love with glass like I am with metal) Also, I can't practice at home like I can do with metals, I have to pay to use the college studio, and the guy isn't often there, and I need to be walked through every piece anyhow. Pieces I make their are always very huge and thick and clunky anyhow, and while I was in Israel my mum gave away all my good thin elegant pieces to grandparents in England, so all I see are the thick ugly early glasses and birds. This gets me way down, like not being able to see 3 weeks of ironwork and silverwork and knowing they are being misused.
sorry about this rant, it's not entirely armoury.
Merry Being,
Happy Hammering,
I feel a bit better and I'm gonna go out and work on something while listening to Beethoven's Messe in C Major second movement and Iowa. Both songs calm me down.
Thanks for reading,
Archie
