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Scott commented to me that it seemed like I came down pretty hard on Stankard, and wondered if he'd done something to piss me off, so I thought I'd better hurry up and clarify here. In fact, I think he's a wonderful artist and person, and I apologize if I made it sound otherwise in my last post, and didn't work harder to explain myself. I was mainly lamenting the fact that most or maybe all of us marble collectors don't know him better, because I really WOULD LIKE to know him better, since from everything I've heard, he sounds like a REALLY nice and interesting person. I had just hoped that he would spend more time on his interview (once he decided to do it for us), and that he would pop in to say hi and let us get to know him. But hey, like I said, he just may not care that much about marbles for whatever reasons, as many glass artists don't, since spheres just don't float their boats like they do for some of us. However, we do delve into lots of other glass here from time to time, and most of us collectors have other glass besides marbles.

All of the comments I've ever heard about Paul have indicated that he's a wonderful guy, a joy to be around, and has given SO much of himself to the world of glass, so I definitely love the guy. He has popped into Marble Weekend at Wheaton several times, which is cool, although I haven't had the pleasure of meeting him yet. Also, I should mention that I wasn't knocking the pricing on his marbles either, since I think it's great when artists can make a good, or hopefully great living off of glass. I'd like to see every great glass artist succeed immensely. When I said they were expensive, I just meant that most collectors wouldn't own any of his work because of this, and thus not be on their favorites list, besides the fact that we don't know him personally.

So, hopefully that clears things up, and I apologize if I made overly negative vibes with that last post.

Brian