Greenware blog reflection

document your work and post an image on your blog. 

a. what excited you about the process of working with clay, of creating a an abstract form focused on texture? what are you most curious about?

the idea and process of working with clay excited me because clay is such a quick way to make an abstract form in space. It also allows for the third dimension. The malleability of the clay allowed for a high degree of variability texture as well as form. While making this project, I was curious about reinforcing the clay and the idea of sacrificing a cool form for the stability of the clay. The clay also allowed for me to quickly bring abstract ideas to life, and watching both how the clay influenced my ideas and how my ideas influenced the clay were both things that were interesting to see. 

b. if you were to begin the clay sculpture anew, what is the most important piece of advice you would need?

The most important piece of advice I would give myself would be that the flexibility of the clay is a good thing, not necisarily a detriment. The experimentation allowed with the clay brought a welcome complexity in the project. Early on in this project, I was afraid of the clay not taking the shape I had for it in my mind. Next time I might allow for the clay's properties to influence my work more.