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This is a cool question/topic. When is abowl not a bowl? My kids have
learned the old saw "if it does not hold water it's art." Is a burled bowl
with negative space, i.e. holes, still a bowl. I think so. It has a bowl
like shape.
How about a vessel wit incurving sides but a large opening in the top? It
will still hold the potatoe chips but it might seem more like a hollow form
or vase. How elingated must a piece be before it changes in name from a
hollow form to a vase? As I look at what I turn from the faceplate I
categorize the shapes generally as platters, bowls, vases, hollow forms, and
other. I know I have a criterion but I am not always sure of what it is.

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Darrell Feltmate
Truro, NS Canada
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