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Cerebral Herniation

[n recent weeks | have bad ceca with

Leonard Ex

home in Faikland. He feared laupg

sotter and sculptor

and winced ar potentially humorous
dialogue, afraid that he would pop his new
hentia operation stitches. Ac my
vedic Don Hute

Granville Island 5
was ina similarly tender situation,
working caucously with che hernia

business.

These put wre ncehine ObaeTVALLOTS

probably led to my dream abour all

alder BC male powers develo

specihic moment bast fall, a severe tearing
of those muscle walls that keep us all

It was @ frizheful «

relatively PLC

all those old irys Scr crippled and force
ro take up work of a more delicate bur less
satishying nature. [r would OC ar less
competition in the market place! Wich

that pleasant thought the dream abruptly

chs

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encisd because [ was remninced Che

year of stuclio portery.

1967 when |
t Larared some of the
working POLLers had been ac it fer some

dime —licthe wonder they're having

will be my 30th

began? And wh

See ITILAS.

would give

of other pacers, With this mfe | would be

free fo pursue my own shult.

Unfortunarely, [ find giving up things af

that sere difficult. | walked past Circle
“and saw the fabulous

burmished smoky surfaces on Geeatt

t-fired pieces of Lanne Johnson's; |
oted the sophisticared classical lines of
Mary F
lightness and viralicy of brash a Wie

Dexter ora Wayne Naar could reg

es work: [was reminded of the

ularly
erup: | couldn't but think of the

iu.
dant Wage Hec hnical stuff behind Gordon
Hutchens beautiful pets; | knew ] would
never do the refined slip trailing Don
Hutchinson can do; and on top of all that
lam in awe of the rhythm of por making

and living observed by Heinz Laftin.

As this tumbled through my mind, |
realized chat envy of these pocters - and
many others - could, with a slight change
of attitude, be altered from envy to
admiration
cerebral herniacion we can decide to give
itup. With thac done we can sit back and

adeire the rich ceramic community we

Since envy can cause

have all had a part in creating.

Beb Kingsmill