I am struggling to understand the idea of beauty and "rightness" of a piece of ceramics. Sometimes I make things that I am happy with and when I look at them after a while I start to see how wrong they are. Other times I see the parts that are good but it is very hard to have objects that are right all over. A friend wanted to buy some mugs and after she ordered very precise detail slightly out of my current work line, she was not happy with what I made, and looking at the objects with her I could see she was right. The whole idea of commission puts the maker in a completely new stress. I am not anymore the arbiter of the rightness but somebody else and I cannot use my usual parameters to judge the outcome.
Still I feel that if a piece was "perfect" it would show even if it is not what I would make normally and I should not have passed those pieces for acceptable. How many compromises do we make? How long does it take to make beautiful things all over? will I get there?
