I had never taken an art class before. I really want to try something different, I want to get my hands dirty. This class was my very first introduction to sculpture. I know I'm going to be doing something with clay, but sculpture was definitely much more than clay.

I'm really interested in making as a form of thinking, that the process of working with your hands can create knowledge. One of the first things that we did was we made an egg. It's a simple idea, you can sort of hold it in your head, and the egg form can mean lots of different things to people.

After we had finished our eggs, then we went to the professor's house and had it fired in his fire pit. Bill had given us an idea of what the eggs were going to look like. We had to say goodbye to this egg because it was going to come back very, very different.

I was really happy when I saw my egg. That completely blew me away, I was like, "Wow, did I actually make this?" It was amazing to be here, to work with my hands, to look at art in a different way. I'm hoping that it teaches them about process, about how things become over time.

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

I find it mentally exhilarating.