PROCESS & TECHNIQUES &
PROCESS & TECHNIQUES &
Clay is an extremely paradoxical material…
During it is plastic phase it is soft, slippery, wet, easily worked or coaxed into almost any shape.
Dry, it becomes chalklike, with a rather dead and lifeless quality and extreme fragility. After the first light fire, the clay becomes bone-like, absorbent by tough with a return of a certain earthiness reminiscent of soft rock…
Singular Material
(…) Then, after the intense maturing fire, the clay is transformed into a rock-like substance, hard, brittle, dense, colored by the heat and flame. Most materials resist change and have to be sawed, chiseled, hammered, beaten or forced into desired shapes…
Gentle Gestures
But clay is supine and nonresistant - it is moved by the gentlest squeeze or flattened by the merest pressure of the palm (…)
