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Owen Rye
New South Wales Australia
Professor Emeritus Monash University
Professor Emeritus Monash University
High rise buildings with computer generated contents; gleaming plastic in strong colours; stainless steel; glossy powder coated facades; multi-LED numeric choice displays through the house; screens and surround sounds. This is our world. All our purchases have been designed using lines of unvarying thickness, usually with the intermediary of computer logic.
My woodfired fired pots are imagined as a possibility, not designed. With that imagined possibility, there is the knowledge that the eventual reality will be different: perhaps better, perhaps worse but always different. The woodfired pot, unalterably unique, with its distortions and flaws, is not of a different world (it is also the consequence of a human act). But it reminds us of a different attitude, a different approach where logic is balanced by deviations in the plan, by accidents along the way, by a sensory response rather than an intellectual one. In our house the woodfired pot provides a balance that reminds us of our human frailties and our sensory selves. With some flowers in it – it will remind us of a world out there that we may in our cleverness otherwise forget.
Owen Rye, September 2007
My woodfired fired pots are imagined as a possibility, not designed. With that imagined possibility, there is the knowledge that the eventual reality will be different: perhaps better, perhaps worse but always different. The woodfired pot, unalterably unique, with its distortions and flaws, is not of a different world (it is also the consequence of a human act). But it reminds us of a different attitude, a different approach where logic is balanced by deviations in the plan, by accidents along the way, by a sensory response rather than an intellectual one. In our house the woodfired pot provides a balance that reminds us of our human frailties and our sensory selves. With some flowers in it – it will remind us of a world out there that we may in our cleverness otherwise forget.
Owen Rye, September 2007
Owen Rye
New South Wales Australia
Professor Emeritus Monash University
Professor Emeritus Monash University
High rise buildings with computer generated contents; gleaming plastic in strong colours; stainless steel; glossy powder coated facades; multi-LED numeric choice displays through the house; screens and surround sounds. This is our world. All our purchases have been designed using lines of unvarying thickness, usually with the intermediary of computer logic.
My woodfired fired pots are imagined as a possibility, not designed. With that imagined possibility, there is the knowledge that the eventual reality will be different: perhaps better, perhaps worse but always different. The woodfired pot, unalterably unique, with its distortions and flaws, is not of a different world (it is also the consequence of a human act). But it reminds us of a different attitude, a different approach where logic is balanced by deviations in the plan, by accidents along the way, by a sensory response rather than an intellectual one. In our house the woodfired pot provides a balance that reminds us of our human frailties and our sensory selves. With some flowers in it – it will remind us of a world out there that we may in our cleverness otherwise forget.
Owen Rye, September 2007
My woodfired fired pots are imagined as a possibility, not designed. With that imagined possibility, there is the knowledge that the eventual reality will be different: perhaps better, perhaps worse but always different. The woodfired pot, unalterably unique, with its distortions and flaws, is not of a different world (it is also the consequence of a human act). But it reminds us of a different attitude, a different approach where logic is balanced by deviations in the plan, by accidents along the way, by a sensory response rather than an intellectual one. In our house the woodfired pot provides a balance that reminds us of our human frailties and our sensory selves. With some flowers in it – it will remind us of a world out there that we may in our cleverness otherwise forget.
Owen Rye, September 2007
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