For Alex

So we talked... I have your solution! I think to achieve the organic quality and to build the structures that you originally wanted you should be looking into paper clay. Completely awesome material! You can make very organic shapes and work off of it dry so you can build up little by little and then make something huge that is very strong/stable.

Examples:

Here are some awesome leaves that someone made out of paper clay and I think that this may have been the effect that you were going for with the original grass forms that you wanted. So it is possible to make it natural!

Second, You can make crazy structure from it. Can't make pottery like this with normal clay.


Ok last example. You can get this stuff really really thin and if you use porcelain it can become very transparent, which opens a lot of doors to play with the way light passes through or interacts with the surface.

I think you should really go after the grass forms because you could make them really interesting with this material whether it be with the way light interacts with it or just the form itself. I'm sure that you could start some kind of interesting dialogue with the forms if you execute it well.

Here are some sites that may help a little:

http://www.ceramicstoday.com/articles/porcelain_paperclay.htm
http://www.ceramicstoday.com/howto/htpaperclay.htm

PS... If you want I can copy some of my books that have info on paper clay.