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12-04-2001, 09:32 AM
Hello Everyone,
I have posted about this show previously in a workshop heater topic (Kind of got sidetracked) but I couldn't resist cutting and pasting this post again from Badger Pond because his reaction was mostly the same as mine and he, too, talked about the norfolk island pine bowl. Thought you might be interested in another wood turner's perspective.
I agree that the pieces begged to be touched, but unfortunately we were prevented from doing so.
Here is his post:
Wood Turning in North America since 1930
Posted By: Bruce in woodturner's heaven in MN <bruce_haugen@yahoo.com>
Date: Tuesday, 12/4/01, at 12:18 a.m.
is the title of an exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts through the end of December. I was lucky enough to be there on Saturday with LOML. People should not walk through that exhibit, they should kneel. Names? I'll give you names: Stocksdale, Osolnik, Moulthrop, Ellsworth, Hogbin, Holzapfel.
The MIA perpetrated a great sin upon me, however. Imagine to be in the presence of the masters of the art and not allowed to touch anything!? The outrage of it all! These pieces invited touching: the unbelievably thin walled construction of translucent norfolk island pine in a 2 foot diameter sphere; the delicate stems of Rude Osolnik's candlesticks, the impossibly complicated segmented turnings of several turners; a set of miniatures so small as to defy description.
Yes, many people do these things now. But imagine being in the presence of the first of all these forms that we treasure. It was breathtaking. It was inspiring. It was awe-inspiring.
Bruce
Kay Strait
I have posted about this show previously in a workshop heater topic (Kind of got sidetracked) but I couldn't resist cutting and pasting this post again from Badger Pond because his reaction was mostly the same as mine and he, too, talked about the norfolk island pine bowl. Thought you might be interested in another wood turner's perspective.
I agree that the pieces begged to be touched, but unfortunately we were prevented from doing so.
Here is his post:
Wood Turning in North America since 1930
Posted By: Bruce in woodturner's heaven in MN <bruce_haugen@yahoo.com>
Date: Tuesday, 12/4/01, at 12:18 a.m.
is the title of an exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts through the end of December. I was lucky enough to be there on Saturday with LOML. People should not walk through that exhibit, they should kneel. Names? I'll give you names: Stocksdale, Osolnik, Moulthrop, Ellsworth, Hogbin, Holzapfel.
The MIA perpetrated a great sin upon me, however. Imagine to be in the presence of the masters of the art and not allowed to touch anything!? The outrage of it all! These pieces invited touching: the unbelievably thin walled construction of translucent norfolk island pine in a 2 foot diameter sphere; the delicate stems of Rude Osolnik's candlesticks, the impossibly complicated segmented turnings of several turners; a set of miniatures so small as to defy description.
Yes, many people do these things now. But imagine being in the presence of the first of all these forms that we treasure. It was breathtaking. It was inspiring. It was awe-inspiring.
Bruce
Kay Strait