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"I like it bare, leaving only
the essentials in it," he says.
"Not ostentatious. The o n 1 y
thing on stage is the mimist.
It's a popular form among the
real die-hard mimists, the ones
I respect. The other kind -
props, costumes, other mimists
to help you - isn't as difficult'
for the audience to get into, but
my style is much more reward-
ing to me."
"I ike serious pieces," he
contin-'c-s. "Pieces with a piecel
of pathos. Pathos," he repeats.
"That's a good word . . . Any-
way, there's something about
the white face and the 1 o n e
figure on stage that is conducive
to getting serious thoughts
across."
Of the roughly fifty different
mime and pantomime presenta-
tions included in his repetoire,
he counts ninety per cent as
original creations, five per cent
"rip-offs" and the remaining
five per cent "standards - your
dues. If you're good, you oughta
throw those in."
But Seth has no patience for
"practioners," those performers
who strictly pay 'dues".
"It's not enough to be a pra-
titioner - doing a walk, climb-
ing a ladder, pulling a rope -
unless you can relay more emo-
tion. You have to get the person
across, the character across.
There are some people in mime
who are very much like modern
dancers - they're just in it for
ath, silence
the body movement. I don't dred times. He grips his fnigers
mean to downplay that," he around a hockey stick yog can
says, apologizing as he does see only in your mind's eye,
each time he takes a poke at rounds his shoulders, then
a facet of his art,"Tbut you've swings his arms from left to
just got to relay emotion." right in big, bulky, Bobby Orr
fashion, as he tries desperately
to imitate the easy skim of a
ALTHOUGH SETH performs skate over ice with his slippers
both mime and pantomime, on his living room carpeting.
there is a crystal clear differ- "I just can't do it," he says.
ence in his view between t h e "It's just not smooth enough."
two. "Some people will say Seth also admits that those
they'reuinterchangeable," he routineshenonceadelivered like
points out, "but not me." clockwork need a little polish-
"Pantomime is a shorter, fun- ing now, because he has b e e n
nier skit involving the creation away from professional per-
of illusion with the performer formances for nearly a year.
generally playing a character - "I don't need any more teach-
the common man caught w i t h ers," he proclaims, "because I
his pants down,, trying to right know enough and I was good
himself. But mime," he says, enough that I can get in shape
rolling the word off his tongue myself. I think I have a long
as if it were a mantra, "mime way to go to catch up to the
is more abstract, harder to un- all-time greats, but when I get
derstand, because you have to back in shape," he adds quick-
create an emotion, and you ly, "I'm good. I know that."
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One of any artist's biggest'
fears is that the point of their
performance will be lost on the;
audience. Has there even been!
an emotion or action he w a s
unable to relay?1
"No, I've never really h a dj
difficulty getting something ...
Oh! I know. Ice hockey. I
can't do it, I could just neverI
do that." And before the con-
fession is out of his mouth he,
has leaped from his chair ,and;
is. attempting the routine youI
know he has attempted a hun-
A PROUD artist, he says he'll
peddle his wares for free
now, but won't go in front of a
paying audience until he's tak-
en off the twenty extra pounds
he indicates with an endearing
pat to his stomach, and has
sharpened the tools of his trade.
"I won't go in front of a pay-
ing audience if I'm not good. I
put them up high. They deserve
a lot. So when I'm in shape in
another two or three months'
I'm just gonna start knocking
on doors."
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(Continued from Page 5) on glass early on a Saturday came away with $200 in his poc- the panels of colored glass. larger, more impressive com-
Once again, Ralph reaches morning at Farmer's market, ket that day. "Now if the So- "Sport is the new temple," missions.
in, this time to pull out items or at an art fair somewhere. cialists take over we'll all be Raloh explains matter-of-factly. WHAT WOULD HE create if
of a less practical nature. First "People might go just to get a out of business," he chuckles. "The Eastern emphasis on J he had at his fingertips all
appears a three by five foot rutabaga or something, but Still, the most grueling task short is incited the place- the resources in the stained
design undulating with blue and they see a piece of glass they of all is gleaning patrons from ment of stained glass in sport glass world? Ralph responds
white Miroesque forms. He like and they go home and think a public unaccustomed to buildigs . . . Did you know, without hesitation, as if he'd
sets it in its element by the about it. Then sometimes they adorning their homes with a there's a book out caled "Zen been pondering the question all
window and fetches another come back and give me a com- decoration which for ages was and the Art of Tennis? . . . It's along. "We (he and Vavrine)
glass painting - this one a mission." virtually patented by the true." muse about hanging a piece by
mildly abstracted woman as- And strange commissions Church. After all consider how R:ph too, has benefited from dirigibles over the Grand Can-
sembled from small warm-ton- there have been. Oner customer out of step one might feel buy- this new source of business. He yon with the diffuse light of an
ed pieces of glass. Some are who Ralph described disdain- ing church pews for living recently collaborated with his orange sunset coming through
painted with details and fired fully as "a rich dentist and room use. friend and teacher, Bob Vav- it."
-a technique Ralph toys with elitist," ordered a 30 by 23 QUCH SENTIMENTS are not rive, a locally acclaimed stain- Then he giggles like a child
in his spare time. inch window for his bathroom a consideration ii the de- ed glass craftsman, on the de- over his wit and tacitly dis-
These abstractions of nature fashioned precisely after the sign of institutional structures. sign and construction of a 7 by misses the question as too lofty
are not the stuff of a mere wallpaper. It took Ralph two Restaurants, bars, even Mc- 15 foot panel of stained glass to apply to his realistic goals.
craftsman, but the rantings of , hours to design the piece, an Donalds have all stepped up to that will adorn the Uniersity's Ralph just wants to collect a
a proud artist. But for now, the afternoon to cut it from the claim their share of stained new HIl area sporting facility. reservoir of different media to
lanky, stoic-faced Ralph will factory - prepared sheets of glass. While churches have The energy that radiates from "play" with. "I tend to be a
have to put most dreams of glass and an additional few evolved into squat, gymnasium- the pnel's collage of brilliant- jk of all trades," he says,
free-form creation, gallery ex hours to complete the tedious like structures, devoid of any lv hed swimmers, skiers and "so this (stained glass) may be
hibitions and large commis- Job of molding and soldering ; embellishments, sports complex hockey players itself enough a nart of the greater scheme of
sions aside, in the interest of fragments together. Ralph designers have made room for to propel the two artists on to thing. I just don't know."
establishing a solid reputation
in the craft. ~ ~______
Small sales and a few com-
missions have thus far made
Ralph's flirtation with stained
glass "lucrative enough to cov-'il
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help from his wife's income and
government unemployment
checks from the teaching job
Ralph quit six months ago.
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