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CLAY Clay started as a reflection of the emotions of the character, Soupi, in “Longing To Tell� by Tricia Rose. It latter turned into an understanding of how people are like moldable clay. We are constantly affected by outside forces that change our components and our reaction to events. We sometimes want to be like dry clay where nothing seems to affect us, but even when we are try to be dry, we become even more affected than we wanted to be.
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CLAY 1. TO FILL with something that expresses your current emotion 2. TO CUT moving towards the people around you, if no one is around you cut towards yourself 3. TO FLATTEN the clay with as much strength as possible 4. TO REBUILD the broken clay 5. TO SMASH the clay with a hard object 6. TO SMUSH the clay with an appendage 7. TO MIX the object with another (i.e. resin, latex, oil, etc.) in a counterclockwise motion if right-handed, in a clockwise motion if left-handed 8. TO DRY within 30 feet of your current location 9. TO MOLD with any tools you have at your disposal 10. TO TRACE something that makes you feel happy or safe
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CLAY To cut. To mold. To fill. To trace. These are some of the verbs I came up with when thinking about clay and how it relates to my thesis on women, sexuality, and perception. People are moldable. They are shaped from their expriences, environments, words, and connection with people.
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CLAY * To Mold-Church * To Trace-Uncle Bobby (friend) * To Cut-Chaos * To Flatten-Stand Up Strong * To Fill-Content * To Rebuild-Overcome
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Actions (1-5)
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CLAY 2-3. Experiments continue
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Environment (2)
Variations (3)
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Mirror Within Flatten 1 ball of clay into a disc. Repeat this process for one more disk. Take a small piece of reflective material and sandwich it between the two disks of clay. Use your hands to seal the edges and reshape it into a square. Let dry. Shave of some of the excess clay to expose the mirror inside. To Mix Take a small piece of colorful molding clay and a slightly larger piece of crayola clay. Fold and twist them together until you get the desired combination. Move your hands through the clay to make an organic shape. Then stop, set it down, and let dry.
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Mirror Within
To Mix
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To FIll Mold and shape a pice of clay into a crevice to fill. Once you have made the desired mold, fill with hot glue. Cut a piece of wire, bend it in the center and twist it into an eyelet. Stick the raw end in the hot glue. To Mold Use your hands to make a small charm, to not completely merge it together. When it dries break it apart.
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To Fill
To Mold
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To Melt Drop a piece of water into some water in a clear container. Swirl the clay around occassionally. To Rebuild Use your outcome from the previous project to create something new. If Melt was you previous rule, drain the water and use the slip a.k.a. melted clay to paint.
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To Melt
To Rebuild
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CLAY To Crumble Using dry clay, smash the bigger piece into smaller pieces. To Crush Using dry clay, shave some off while utilizing a nail-file, exacto knife, etc.
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To Crumble
To Crush
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COLLAB To Sway (for others) Theme: in a bag of words, the individual word choices form their own linguistic expressions, and from there comes connection. Connection takes place when individuals find those who share similar frequencies. a. Think about one or more pattern of beat. b. Sway the object with the beats. c. look at how others use the beats. (check)
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COLLAB To Arrange (for others) Theme: even if using same forms of language/pebbles/content, individual patterns can also occur while interpretation is inevitably subjective. a. Take a bag of pebble. b. Spread them around, from shape. c. Let others see what does that mean.
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COLLAB To mix (for others) Theme: Online communication has a fluid, often informal form. A bag of pebble represents a bag of words (a bag of information), but is lack of the free form quality. Mix a bag of pebble with another bag of “content” to see to what extent can the participant form the longest, meaningful sentence. a. Find a bag of “something else”=This something else could be anything as long as it works. b. Form the longest sentence possible, let others guess what does those mean. c. Turn this into a riddle, and do this with another set of pebble and “something else”. OUTCOME Collaborations like this can often produce fun outcomes. For these explorations, I added video on top of doing the usual photos. I did this to better show the interaction of different people including myself with the materials.
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