2.1.1 Moulding
It seems the most natural thing in the world to take some clay and mould it into a ball, a little clay figure, a cup, a pit house.  At first we feel that the shape of nature has been given us.  But, of course, it has not.  This is the man-made shape,  What the pot dies is to reflect the cupped hand; what the pit house does is to reflect the shaping action of man.  And nothing has been discovered about nature herself when man imposes these warm, rounded feminine artistic shapes on her.  The only thing you reflect is the shape of your hand.
J Bronowski
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A herd of buffalo around a barn built with marsh reeds: Impression made from a Summerian identification seal
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