[Jewelry making - Article 00132] - Re: [Orchid] Jewelry design - what & where to learn

[John Donivan]

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>     On the other hand, where self taught jewellers are complitely free
>     and innovative in their learning path, they often get stuck either
>     technically, designwise or both because they lack design and art
>     culture or technical refencences. (fortunately orchid exists). 

    Juliette puts things in a very fine perspective with perfectly fine
    English, too. To paraphrase a quote I heard once, There is something
    ponderous and boring about self-taught works. That's not a
    condemnation. It's one of the main reasons I have been very active on
    this thread, is to diplomatically suggest that one cannot know it
    all, by oneself. The ponderous part of the quote is that there's
    often or usually no variety or breadth to that sort of work - the
    quote referred to musicians who play all the instruments in a
    recording. This morning in the paper was an article about a game
    developer's job fair that was here, and several people very
    diplomatically said that the schools "were not preparing students for
    employment", and one of the biggest reasons cited was that they don't
    learn teamwork. Now, I am a jeweler, and well rounded at the bench,
    but I am also a part of a team, and have been for many years. People
    may think, and I think many DO think, that there's some advantage to
    "doing your own thing", but that is actually limiting. It is the
    learning from our peers and betters, not just by talking to them but
    by working alongside them, that gives us skills and knowlege greater
    than we could ever find if left to our own devices. When I see many
    artists, such as here on Orchid, who have an attitude of, "No, I only
    do MY designs", I just cringe, although I have no arguement with how
    anybody wants to work for themselves. But then I look at their work,
    and it all looks the same, and the ceiling of their skills is not
    especially high, and I just sigh and think what they could do if they
    reached outside themselves..... Oh, well, nobody asked me, so I just
    keep on going.... 

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