Pottery seems to be a bit like speech. It comes in many different languages -- even different families of languages (just as language has Romance, Semitic, Indo-European families). And those languages sometimes break into dialects and accents with their distinct colloquialisms and conventions.
That's not particularly illuminating. It's obvious really.
What's interesting to me is the degree to which, just as I might enjoy the sound of a language without understanding a word of it, I can enjoy the look of a pot without fully "getting" it.
I can't do a convincing British accent, though I understand the words. Okay, I usually understand the words.
But, unusually, I can affect a reasonably good French accent, though I don't understand a word of it.
But it's nearly impossible for me to produce a pot I don't understand....though, I don't fully understand the pots I make.
But, unusually, I can affect a reasonably good French accent, though I don't understand a word of it.
But it's nearly impossible for me to produce a pot I don't understand....though, I don't fully understand the pots I make.
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