Preview: Liz Larner in Season 8 of ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" (2016)
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0:05 - 0:09Clay is just this kind of amazing material
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0:09 - 0:12in that it has all these different states.
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0:15 - 0:18And it's very loose and pliable--
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0:18 - 0:20it can be unwieldy,
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0:20 - 0:22especially when you're working with a lot of it.
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0:29 - 0:31And then it dries out.
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0:31 - 0:33The water leaves it.
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0:33 - 0:36It just becomes, like, this dust.
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0:39 - 0:41And you have to get it into the kiln.
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0:41 - 0:41You fire it
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0:41 - 0:45and it vitrifies and becomes very hard and stable.
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0:46 - 0:50It's so interesting that dust becomes this material
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0:50 - 0:51that is, like, probably
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0:51 - 0:53one of the hardest things to degrade.
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0:55 - 1:02[Liz Larner in "Los Angeles"]
[September 23, 2016 on PBS]
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