Reflections

 It is so amazing, as if there is another world behind these flat surfaces, 

maybe if i just reach out my hand, I'd be able to travel into that world, 

 the world that is so similar, yet so different from ours.

Everything will be the same, yet opposite,

Left will be right, and right be be left. 

North will be South, and East will be West

Just like Alice through the Looking Glass

Clay

Okay, second post of the day.

Two weeks ago, Mrs Tan got us started on working with clay, one of my favorite mediums since I am more of a handy(Y) person. The last two Monday lessons were just to let us familiarize ourselves with this medium, since the last time we worked with it was the pinch-pots, slabs and coils for the YOG mascots in Secondary one.

During the first lesson,  Mrs Tan also showed us something new on how to cut a piece of clay into a circle without using the cap of a container to measure. She first took out a banding wheel (I've only used the electrical type before), and threw a piece of slab on it. Then she spun the wheel super fast, and just hold a scoring tool top of the clay, so as the clay spins, it passes through the sharp end of the scoring tool and is cut into a circular shape. I never knew that the tools can be used this way and it is especially useful when there's no circular objects lying around or the shapes are not of the size that we want.

For the rest of the lesson, we made coil pots which we can design it however we like. It was really fun but if not for playing with the clay Miss Michelle was working on while 'revising for AEP Blocks' the other day, I'd almost forgot how quickly this thing dries! It was really irritating when it kept breaking apart, but as I progress, I became more and more familiar with the nature of the medium and it was much easier to work with. I wanted to make something like the type of pots where traditional clay or marble women hold, with water pouring out, but I can't really remember how those pots look like and so it was up to my imagination. I should say that the pot turned out good enough, though it was much different from my original idea, since I manipulated it as I go along. Oh, and I don't think anyone really noticed, but it was sort of half way done, I had thought of making it much more sophisticated and there were so many details that I would like to add in, but the lesson had ended. So yup. (I'll try to upload a photo of it after it comes out of the kiln, I am dying of anticipation here, hope that Mrs Tan will let us see it next Monday^^)

The second lesson was cool too, we were to create something like a nameplate tile, something like the ones on the wall of Toa Payoh HDB Hub, but it has to be bigger, about the size of a hand, and it has to represent ourselves.