DOUGH IS NOT A MATERIAL I USUALLY(ever) WORK WITH.
that being said, i really liked having the opportunity to play around with it!
SYNOPSIS: well, once i was able to think of dough as a media in which to make NON-EDIBLE objects and as a substance with which to experiment with i began to have fun using it. To me the dough was a base for the dye, glass and rock-salt. I knew immediately that i wanted to use a colorful palate when playing with the dough and worked on dying the rock-salt as well as the dough.. BUT FIRST, i had begun with making "beads" with the dough and dip dying them and putting them on a string - like a garland . however once the rock-salt was brought to my attention i jumped at the idea of changing the texture of the pieces i was making using the dough as a base for the other materials. Most of what i ended up making used the dough as a surface to put stuff on top of. I did try changing the dough itself into different textures by rolling it as flat as possible without ripping and by pressing chains on it to create patterns, however i doubted that the pressed patterns would hold up in the oven.
I really liked the set-up of our workspace because I got a lot of ideas ( about 50%) from observing what other people were doing/ what materials they were using to change the dough.
my pieces were intended to be sculptural jewelry pieces. i suppose only time will tell if they look like anything wearable.
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