Does the dream of surrounding yourself with handmade ceramics have practical objections such as dishwasher safe? To be beautiful, …uh.. use beautiful ceramics … means suffering?
Or better yet to quote the Dutch poet Willem Elsschot:
[…] for between dream and deed
laws and practical objections stand in the way
(Willem Elsschot 7 May 1910)
Fortunately not! Handmade dream ceramics and dishwasher convenience do not encounter any practical objections. At least when the glazes used are properly designed and fired correctly.
The scientific evidence has been provided, hand building ceramics cannot be left to women, that’s a real man’s job! At least that was the case 4,700 years ago in present-day Israel, according to a recent study at the University of Winnipeg.
Science is fantastic, ideas are constantly changing; progressive insight. A few years ago it turned out that hand stencils in caves from about 64,000 years ago were not made by men, but mainly by women. Now it seems that hand-forming clay pots wasn’t something women did when men were running after a mammoth.
So you modern men, it’s time to get from behind your potter’s wheel and grab clay directly with your bare hands. Hand building ceramics is the new hunting.