Earth Plaster &
Sculpting Workshop crew:
Pascal,
Sarah,
Bridget,
Deanne,
Neil,
and
pained grimace of a man with
outstretched
arms trying to hold camera steady.
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today we threw
stuff at the wall to see what would
stick.
some of it was earth plaster—a mix of sand, clay, and
fiber
(straw or dried manure) pushed into thin
layers over toothy
adhesive
undercoat
applied yesterday. for more sculptural
forms, a stickier, thicker mix of cob with
extra
clay in
it. mixed
by hand in a big tub perched
on haybales, measured parts from buckets
on floor, filtered through screens kept
atop
wheelbarrows, more or less careful to not
get any on white leather couch seeing as
how we were doing this in a
living room,
adding curves
and depth to flat, square
walls, bringing
the outside in,
making literal
the metaphor.
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