A short project that aimed to show how clay can be used when it is both wetter and 'plastic' or dryer and 'leather hard'
Plastic clay has around a 20% water content, as it dries out the properties change and the clay can be cut and assembled in different ways. Clay can also be used with more water and poured into moulds in a process called slipcasting. When Clay is bone dry it's properties change again and it cannot be joined and will in fact slake down (break up) in water. When clay is fired in a kiln all the water is removed and the clay transforms into a permanent material though this is to do with the quartz inversion and not the removal of the water.