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A woman with blonde hair wearing a yellow top holds a ceramic bird

"I decided to build a few basic things … my eureka moment came when the yellow clay work that I put in there [the kiln] turned out to be red when it was fired — just like the buildings."
A woman in front of a drum kiln holding a ceramic bird

A small bird made out of clay

"It's just so varied from suburb to suburb, you get different kinds of clay,"
she said.
Small brown vases

"There have always been people who are doing that [using raw clay] but … only recently has it really blossomed into normal potters — people who would otherwise be using commercial clay."

A clay bowl

A woman holds a small pot.

"They don't want to be using clay that's in plastic bags, they want to have found clay on their property."

A black and white old photo of labourers standing on roof of brick building

Clumps of dirt

A close up of a womans hands moulding sticky brown clay

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