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...Unfired clay is insulating and fire retardant, and while it won’t biodegrade, it can dissolve back into the earth or be reused....
...She will make it in clay; it would be better off in clay. The idea for her residency project is seeded. In Sophie’s own words, to make the most of a residency you need preparedness....
...China clay played a key role in the production of paper and the FT chose the red and pink clay from the Bodelva pit for its new look. The old mine now contains the biodomes of the Eden Project....
...Buick will fire it in this state of transition for the exhibition, as if freezing the moment in time....
...a fossil fuel- and plastic-free event and proudly celebrates local traders, with two-thirds of its 175 chalets showcasing the best of the south west: from Mendip Hills Aldwick Estate wines to Colebrook Clay...
...There are very few collective acts of creation once you pass the age of finger painting and making little clay candle-lamps, yet cooking together is one....
...The clay was hot and strange on my skin. Lying down, caked and wrapped in the hotel basement, the thoughts buzzed in my head (“am I dead?”) and then slowed....
...He fires the clay, which he digs from the earth, before using a kick pottery wheel to make what he calls “Haji”– high-fired unglazed ceramics (such as the utensils typically known as arita-yaki, bizen-yaki...
...Old pieces are broken and embedded in wet clay to create new sculptures. “I fire them, and fire them again, creating cracks and torsions that, for me, reflect our experiences in life,” she says....
...To me, its fleeting fire sums up the hedonism of the harvest; the last flush of summer contained in the grapes....
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...Two relatively well-off areas — Rutland in eastern England and Richmondshire in Yorkshire — stood out on the list of recipients....
...“What’s the public interest in knowing that role models have feet of clay?” asks Sherborne. “Maybe it’s better that you don’t know what George Carman’s like personally.”...
...I was face to face with a 90-year-old man, intense eyes staring back at me through a dazzling bandit stripe of white clay....
...Chiang was interested, she writes, in “clay and paint as bodily forms and fluids, all the bits, the spills, the overflowing and the confined”....
...It’s up there with fire and language. It’s at least number three and it may be number one.”...
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