A documentation of coating a layer of clay at the outer surface of the ball.
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| Waking up in the early morning and clearing up my mind. |
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| Ball wrapped with multiple layers of newspapers. |
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| Coating aluminium foil to smoothen the edges. |
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| Entire ball is coated with aluminium foil. |
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| The air-dry clay that I am using. Gede non-firing clay. |
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| Coating the ball with paper clay. |
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| Smoothen the paper clay surface with a sponge. |
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| Waiting the clay to dry under normal room temperature. |
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| Something bad happened. Cracks appeared after leaving it to dry for 30 minutes. |
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| The cracks are really serious after leaving them to dry for a night! |
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| He must be kidding me. |
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| Giving up using clay. Pealing the clay off and seeking for alternative solution. |
This is not the first time I fail in using clay. I used polymer oven-baked clay during the first stage of this project and they also cracked. Hence, I made my decision fast and decided not to coat the layer of clay any more. I justified that the reason to use clay - initially is to create a stronger message of human touch, provided with the characteristic that clay has temperature in itself, could now be taken away until I find an alternative way to communicate the sense of human touch.
The reason for it to crack is still unidentified. I suspect the clay is too thin to be coated so when it dries up and contracts, it is easy to crack because there isn't a base (clay) to hold the clay on the surface that contacts with the air.
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