Thursday, 25 May 2023

Chemical Changes

 



2023 video work

4 minutes 24 seconds


"The act of firing clay in a kiln is the first act that we know of that purposely effected a chemical change. When we produce a handmade set of mugs, we feel we are enhancing our lives with something more natural than plastic. Incredibly, though handmade mugs are made using a very ancient process, fired clay was in fact the first synthetic produced"


- Suzanne Staubach


Excerpt from Clay: The History and Evolution of Humankind’s Relationship with Earth’s Most Primal Element

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