FINALLY! I got to work with the #clay that we found underneath a ricefield in #Okuma, very close to the #Fukushima Daiichi #powerplant! I also worked with clay from a #ceramic center in #Oburi, a place that was famous for it’s #ceramics, also close to the powerplant but about six kilometers further. This particular clay was originally imported from #Sendai, but the #artists in Oburi worked with it and it was stalled in a local ceramic center and clay ‘factory’. Although this particular place has the same distance from the powerplant as #Tomioka (the place where I stay and work, nine kilometers from the powerplant and totally #safe), the #radiation level around this ceramic center is extremely high and is called a #hotspot.
No, this doesn’t mean that this clay is #dangerous or #whatever. It was saved inside the building. So it’s all good.
Anyway. because the Okuma clay comes directly from the soil and has not been cleaned from durt and stones etc and also because it is basicly clay with another quality, I tried mixing both clays today.
Don’t expect #masterpieces (for now). At this stadium I am just #testing the material.
But #yayyy: #PROGRESS!