Well, I admit I would have said, "I have to mark this down slightly in terms of the authenticity ranking, because you are recreating a piece that uses a toxic glaze and didn't get the exact color-- but we don't *want* you to use the the toxic glaze. It's nothing against your work, it's the structure of the competition...." Now, that doesn't apply if they used a glaze to get an equivalently period color instead, to my eyes.
My apprentice was struggling with the idea of why someone else, who rendered their own tallow, got a better score on 'complexity' than her olive-oil soap did, and how could that be 'fair'. My answer was that if she wanted to score higher in complexity, she needed to add some other portion of the project that added to the complexity.
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Date: 2008-03-06 10:06 pm (UTC)My apprentice was struggling with the idea of why someone else, who rendered their own tallow, got a better score on 'complexity' than her olive-oil soap did, and how could that be 'fair'. My answer was that if she wanted to score higher in complexity, she needed to add some other portion of the project that added to the complexity.