In the studio this fall Warren and I have been experimenting with how we cool our gas kiln. These experiments have resulted in a new syntax for the language of our old recipes of glaze and slip. I find that I shift into another logic and sensibility of surface and form as I make these pots. I work both like I am blind without expectation and as if I can see into the future.
Jhumpa Lahiri received an e-mail from a friend in Rome:
"Referring to my desire to appropriate Italian, he [Domenico Starnone] wrote, 'A new language is almost a new life, grammar and syntax recast you, you slip into another logic and another sensibility.' "
--from Teach Yourself Italian by Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri received an e-mail from a friend in Rome:"Referring to my desire to appropriate Italian, he [Domenico Starnone] wrote, 'A new language is almost a new life, grammar and syntax recast you, you slip into another logic and another sensibility.' "
--from Teach Yourself Italian by Jhumpa Lahiri
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