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I had never taken an art class before.

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I really want to try something different,
I want to get my hands dirty.

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This class was my very first introduction
to sculpture.

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I know I'm going to be doing something with
clay, but sculpture was definitely much more

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than clay.

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I'm really interested in making as a form
of thinking, that the process of working with

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your hands can create knowledge.

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One of the first things that we did was we
made an egg.

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It's a simple idea, you can sort of hold it
in your head, and the egg form can mean lots

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of different things to people.

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After we had finished our eggs, then we went
to the professor's house

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and had it fired in his fire pit.

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Bill had given us an idea of what the eggs
were going to look like.

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We had to say goodbye to this egg because
it was going to come back very, very different.

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I was really happy when I saw my egg.

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That completely blew me away, I was like,
"Wow, did I actually make this?"

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It was amazing to be here, to work with my
hands, to look at art in a different way.

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I'm hoping that it teaches them about process,
about how things become over time.

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It's o.k. to start not knowing what your final
product should look like, the process just

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naturally moves you to the finish line.

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I find it mentally exhilarating.