Maybe I’ve become more sensitive, but I think I see lots of men’s tears nowadays. It’s not because I watch reality shows. Big Brother, the Voice, Hell’s Kitchen, tears provoked for the ratings I ignore. I will also have nothing to do with tears for emotional blackmail.
No, I mean real tears, like president Obama’s , but then in the ceramics scene. Keith Brymer Jones in his judging at The Great Pottery Throw Down comes to mind. But there are more ceramists who have become immersed in modernizing male emotions.
Will the twenties be the emotional catch-up for modern male ceramists?
A new decade has begun, time for roaring twenties ceramics. No I don’t mean vintage ceramics from the twenties of the last century, but freshly fired 21st century ceramics.
No matter how much I love historical ceramics, the current handmade ceramic tradition can only be maintained by making it now.
And the ceramic tradition is still very much alive, judging from what I’m all encountering on Insta. The hashtag #ceramics has 10 million posts on Instagram. Okay not as popular as #Love (2 billion), #Fashion (759 million) or #Art (583 million), but still 10 million is nothing to sneeze at.
