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"Building a Home in Between"
Brick #1: Books
For the past decade I have been moving around so many places, living a few months here, a couple years there... never really settling. So my home might look very different from other people's home. It's made of the objects I carry with me in my backpack and suitcases and of memories I make and people I meet.
In this project I represented those objects in the shape of bricks, like I use them to build this home even when in between places.

Books are part of the objects I carry around in various shapes (paperback or electronic). Or else I find my way to books always registering to local libraries.

Terracotta paperclay, oxidation firing to 1220C. Paper, oxidation firing to 1000C.
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A mini rectangle book shelf opened front and back. It has 3 mini books standing vertical and one flat opened. In each mini book there are burn pages of paper. The book shelf is made of terracotta clay and the book covers are terracotta paperclay fired at 1220 degrees celsius. The paper pages have been added afterwards and then the piece has been fired again at a 1000 degrees celsius.

"Building a Home in Between"
Here are tests of firing magazine pages in a ceramic electric kiln at around 1000C. The paper doesn't fully burn to ashes like we could think it would at those temperatures.
Over time this changes, the paper sucks in the humidity and it grows and becomes like a white powder.
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