Fire and Mud what it took

[klark44]

I left the burn 2009 and started to plan my theme camp. I knew that it was going to be huge amount of work and money to make it happen. I started making clay and joined E-Playa. Whenever I went to town I would glean used buckets from a sub shop in town and fill them with clay on the way home. I have a very primitive time consuming way of making clay, but its good clay. [url][/url] used a ford Tempo and can only haul 3 or 4 buckets at a time, I needed a truck. I needed money.
Dec. 26 I had a dream. My mom and myself were riding a snowmobile on the top of the sierra. We were frying off the mountains having a blast. She said "I'm not in pain and was going to see what she missed, don't worry and do my art"; my mother was an artist. I woke up. Two later hours my father called said my mother died last night I went to help my dad in Arizona. My inheritance was $1500.
I used the money to fix a truck transmission, help with supplies for my camp and buy my ticket rebuilt my kiln bought minerals for the glaze. the truck was half fixed, the tranny never got put in. the burn was coming up, I had 1500# of clay most of my camp, and I didn't have transportation. after asking around I found another camp from the area and they took 600# of the clay. I borrowed and begged a truck from a friend and I was on my way to the burn. I thought I would buy propane in NV., mistake. I used what money I had left to buy chilly and rice to live on. Made it to the burn broke and alone in my camp. I had a great space between the PoPo posy and a group of artist from Santa cruse with a maze. I set up and found I had left my stove and some of my food at home, survival. I started to make stuff. Sunday and Monday people started to show [img]pid=330775&l=b94772d210&id=100000730823935[/img] The first bisque fire had a couple of hundred pieces. [img]pid=333141&l=fd54487e18&id=100000730823935On[/img] Tuesday my friend and grandpa in-law Tom showed-up. He was a life saver brought a whole camp with food and tea, coffee; I can survive the week. Worked from in the morning with hundreds of great people and fired all night. We produced a couple of thousand pieces during the week and I met some fantastic artist. All had a great time.
made it home broke and tired. I started making clay and planning for next year; bigger and better, but I have some questions about fund raising.

I don't want to have someone die to finance the camp. I have looked at all the funding sites and I don;t have a credit car or bank account. Any way around this funding problem. I have some volntiers to help this year, but also starving artist I would like to build a better camp. and do a major amount of art with everyone on the playa. any way around this any help would be nice. I'm stuck in the mud.[/img]

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[klark44]

thanks I need some prodding sometimes it might work now