Limitations on expression involved in the materials and certain techniques of ceramic sculpture

Details of Investigation 9( IThe rain washed the mountains away, and when they were gone more mountains were made.The Arctic tern flew eleven thousand miles %Q tho opposite pole, and in the East the lemming leapt into the sea.In the forest a tree died, decayed, and became food for the next tree to be born in that spot.The sun shone on the water and drew it into the sky to make rain.Ice came from the north and returned, leaving a new earth.The ocean came over the land, but the land rose again.Day came and then night, winter went and trees were born.These things happened and always will.They happen in a moving, humming rhythm, a rhythm that implies an order and balance.This great order of things appears around us in myriad ways, and yet we do not seem a part of it.We do not migrate or shed our coats.We do not have our young regularly nor do we hibernate.We do not go through meta morphosis or become food for other animals. Man may havedone these things once; but the day, on a river bank, when he exchanged fish with another man for firewood, he became civilized and did them no more.Man, with his civilization, seems to be in opposition to the order of his environment.In fact man is the first phenomenon capable of destroying this order.Having always been aware, however dimly, of the