For my research I prefer to scavenge through books rather than relying on online google searches of the most part. I was introduced to an interesting series of books by Tutor Elaine Riordan in ceramics elective.
I am inquiring into the layering process of spices that occurs when preparing a meal. I am interested in the expanding practice of our elective and this for me took me down a road of incorporating textiles to create or re-create shapes with clay by studying various spices.
I spent a week investigating CLAY SLIP which is a material I hadn't used in the previous semesters.
As I cannot put actual spices/food into the Kiln I am experimenting with coloured slips for now.
I cut pieces of paper from the image below taken from a second book of the same series, to make a paper structure resemblance of one idea I have of layering, I am going to make this with clay.