Clay is just this kind of amazing material
in that it has all these different states.
And it's very loose and pliable--
it can be unwieldy,
especially when you're working with a lot of it. [LAUGHS]
And then it dries out.
The water leaves it.
It just becomes, like, this dust.
And you have to get it into the kiln.
You fire it
and it vitrifies and becomes very hard and stable.
It's so interesting that dust becomes this material
that is, like, probably
one of the hardest things to degrade.
[Liz Larner in "Los Angeles"] [September 23, 2016 on PBS]