When I create larger ‘principal’ pieces I also make a small pad of clay that sits alongside it as I paint. Similar to the oil painting process in which you brush off excess paint onto a cloth, I treat the smaller pad of clay the same way— it accepts all of the leftovers. As the youngest child of three, I feel a kinship with the smaller piece of clay as it it doesn’t get the spotlight, but it still ends up becoming something from whatever time and material is left. It is made with the same ingredients but has a distinctly different personality all of it’s own.