Sherman Hall in his editorial to the February edition of Ceramic Monthly says that "…to make an object it requires the intellectual act of design and the physical act of making. The most successful examples of design in handmade ceramics are where the two are executed in harmony with each other. One does not necessarily dictate the other".
In the same magazine at page 32 artist Cristine Wright states that "Design is an answer to a question other made, while Sculpture is the artist's answer to her own question".
My work is not sculpture, but a teapot or a mug or a dish have elements of design in it, as they have to satisfy functionality, and also have to respect my personal quest for aesthetic and "emotional rightness".
I include in my objects elements of ornament intended as James Trilling does as the "art we add to art, shapes and pattern worked into an object…for the pleasure of outline, colour or fantasy".
I try do understand where my need for ornament comes from, and why I always felt unhappy with the statement that all my teachers made that" Less is more". Finally Trilling talks of the historical context of that statement and of the time when "More was more"( pg 12 of "Ornament a modern perspective").
I am battling with tecnical and design problems and my sense of beauty.
