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this was him. i feel so fortunate to have had almost 3 years of his input into my life. i not only had him as a professor at penn state, but he was a dear and wonderfully enlighting friend. i miss him still. was more like a father to me, imparting his knowledge of many things as fast as i could absorb it. the man spoke, read and wrote 7 LANGUAGES!!!!! one was MYAN. a lot of his art was MYAN/AZTEC influenced, as well as Picasso. the man was a master potter 1st off. he studied with Shoji HAMADA, world reknow japanese potter. he also was a contemorary and friend of BERNARD LEACH, the english potter.
he was also a sculpture, painter & wood carver. while i was working with him, he had been commisioned to do a set of wooden church doors in a uniontown old gothic church. the doors were almost 10 ft tall and each was at least 4 ft wide. he drew the design, had it all made ito a pattern to lay on each door, and was going to remove the wood..........all with HAND TOOLS!!!!! i introduced him to a HAND HELD ROUTER!!!!!! once he saw me removing what would have taken him a day to remove in a couple of hours.........he was hooked. got the doors done and ready to be hung under deadline. i was also his mechanic!!!!! he drove an orange and white VW BUS. SO ANY and all work on it, i did.
while being his assistant at PENN STATE he would do con-ed classes at local places in fayette county. and since i was his helper/student, he made sure i went with on all these classes. was easier for 2 to teach an evening class. we taught the original owners of NEW GENEVA POTTERY, you can google it. they sell turn of the century salt glazed pottery. i also was the potter at MEADOWCROFT VILLAGE outside pittsburgh,for a summer between college.it was a mile from home. and some of the pine trees there, were planted by me in 1958-60!!!!!!
sorry to ramble but i dont get to talk about ZK as much as i could.
