Touching Emotions: quick gestures in clay

Transforming Clay

Come join Desa Philippi in this workshop where you can use clay in a quick and immediate way to give physical shape to common emotions. Emphasis is on intuition and expression rather than on skill in working with clay.

Each participant receives/makes a ball of clay about the size of an apple for each of the emotions to be expressed. Picked out of a hat at random, we have a few minutes to quietly remember the experience of a particular emotion and how it felt. Then we have one minute, to form the ball of clay with our hands. This process is repeated in relation to different emotions. In the end we have six groups of objects.

Once the experiment is finished, there is a short break before we look at the objects and discuss what has emerged - what similarities / differences there are, if it is possible to discern which emotion is expressed and to share views.

The workshop is open to all ages and abilities. Any children must be accompanied by an adult and no child can be left unattended. All materials are provided.