|
estebanana -> RE: Mosaic tile: A modest Remembrance of Eugene Clark (Mar. 20 2017 5:31:56)
|
quote:
I think my blanca was one of the first to use some of Anders' firewood for the rosette and knowing how important olive wood is to one's home in Granada, it bears more than one aspect of beauty for me as perhaps, all rosettes should in their own way. Like your homage.
The Olive wood has a deeper meaning and a connection to region, it has face value beauty, but Anders choose it because it has more meaning than a commercially prepared rosette. I think Gene would have liked that individual side of making in spirit. Really he said he wanted to see people make their own rosettes, and he preferred that Spanish work was in keeping with the mainline of tradition of making a rosette with a connection to traditional method.
He came down on the side of making it yourself rather than buying a rosette premade. In person, off the record, his comments about other makers who used premade rosettes were, well honestly rather scathing.
Unraveling or unpacking the point of view of an iconoclastic personality is delicate business and probably not in the interests of the Foro. And my intension was not to make that the point of my posts, but to pepper the content of rosette making with some hot comments to add an accent to the conversation. The intent I had in mind was to restate in my own way why making a rosette by hand is a good idea and to provide the Foro with one "recipe" a beginner maker could use as a reference to make a rosette. I wanted a thread where the topic could be added to by everyone who knows how to make rosettes, after I set it up with half dozen or so posts with content about rose making.
It seems like people moved in with comments before that could happen and now I am no longer with the flow of my original intent. If anyone wants to take over the posts with the idea of building a rosette making thread that gives a nod to what they learned via Gene Clark's articles and efforts to preserve rosette making please go forth. Presently I've lost the interest to continue.
The wrybald and somewhat sarcastic comment about the qualities of goat pee from different altitudes having an effect on the bleeding quality of veneer dyes did not go unnoticed, or unappreciated. Frankly I was shocked at such rough language. Please give me trigger warning in advance next time you plan to emotionally scar me with the subject of goat urine as a dye mordant. Indeed the flora goats consume at different altitudes must effect the colorfastness and durability of the dye stuffs when treated with the urine. Of course you may never have thought of this, but Gene gave me the secret formula of rabbit urine, aluminum stearate and dog hair to combat this altitude urine variance effect.
|
|
|
|
