Strata from Monolith Series by Eleanor Heimbaugh Photo Credit- Eleanor Heimbaugh There are many special qualities that clay offers as a construction material. One of these qualities is memory. Clay remembers how it was touched and how it was formed. Clay is a process driven material and the process lends itself to memory making. In the mist of teaching learning and creating the clay takes on a form and a purpose. Once finished the ceramic object carries with it not only a memory of its creation but a rich history of its usage as a building material. Clay can also be connected to memory through concept. In my work I use clay to create large sedimentary rock forms that house fossils of the past and proposed fossils of the future, mimicking earth’s strata, which is the earth’s memory in a literal sense.
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