From:
Norman Watts <Norman_Watts@zzzzzzz>
Date:
Thu, 2 Mar 2006 06:54:34 -0500
Subject:
meeting sculptors
The forthcoming nature of the members of this List has led me to
assume that carvers and artists are a welcoming lot. In the past year
or so I have written to three local sculptors whose work I admire to
ask if I might meet them and, if possible, visit their studio. Not
one has ever replied. Now, I understand that these folks are looking
for sales when they make a contact number available (makes sense) and
that they don't need someone wasting their time (makes sense too) but
I'm surprised that 3/3 haven't replied. Is it considered very uncool
to approach people this way? Its not like one would steal trade
secrets, the essentials are in the mind. Its like when occasionally
someone is curious about what I do, I tell them, as much as they
want. I have also taken people to the lab and shown them the where
and how, put things in the microscope. I have no fear that they will
learn my trade and squeeze me out. What and how people do in their
chosen work is one of the most fascinating things in the world to me.
Am I being gauche for asking?
n
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