Today Kirsten and I shared a booth at the Art Show in the Park. The Show was a bust for the two of us, it was for most of our fellow artists too, But some conversations that were had between the two of us and the whole day in general have me thinking so I think I'll try to write.

In my ideal lifetime I would graduate Alfred with my BFA then take a few years off for apprenticeships. Next it would be back to school for an MFA and a job teaching at some university. Eventually getting to the point that I could just survive on a couple open house sales a year (ala Val). I want to make things out of clay and teach others to do the same for the rest of my life and expect to make a comfortable living doing so. I've been thinking a lot today about just how rediculous that sounds. I think I should be amazed by the fact that we live in a society so developed that someone can spend their entire life making non-fuctional works of clay and earn some modest wealth. I say non-functional in the sencse that even the functional work we make isn't function in the old sence of a local potter providing modestly priced wares for use in the everyday. I guess my point is we can go our entire lives creating and never make anything anyone needs, and still live comfortably. But while I think more and more about all of that I think that maybe I'm making this too easy. Don't get me wrong I give my art everything I can. It isn't that I dont take anything as seriously as possible or study what everyone else has done or is doing. But maybe it just takes more than all that? Maybe the reason it all seems so impracticable at first glace is because it is. But I guess I don't really want to get into all that. Leaving a little bit of dillusion can be a motivator.