I love ceramics and all of that.

Arts don't just use clay, aren't the only ones that use clay,

And there on the smaller scale, the scale of an earring or a ceramic pot or a musical instrument, was a materiality and a soulfulness.

It's twice as tough as our high tech ceramics.

Remember I'm the black kid from the '60s who got his life saved with ceramics.

It gets worse.

What, mud snail?

Mattocks chopping clay.

Mud in your eye.

Still made of clay.

The clay making itself?

The mud's soaked into their clothes.

But what's really interesting unlike our ceramics that are in kilns, it happens in seawater.

The next piece that I'm going to do which is the cylinders piece, if you want to get that up it has to do with cylinder seals from about 5,000 years ago, which were stones with designs that were used to roll over wet clay with all sorts of great designs. I love ceramics and all of that.

Well, uranium dioxide's a ceramic, and ceramic doesn't like releasing what's inside of it.

From the mud gumbo, and the loneliness.

There's an aerated brick I did in Limoges last year, in Concepts for New Ceramics in Architecture.

The ceramic package was more expensive, but it dissipated heat more effectively than plastic.

Demographics exacerbate these conditions.

You notice the clay on the soles of her feet.

And that only kinda added fuel to this balloning debt problem.

While we slave over this mud, he goes off to have a few drinks!

Not with mud on my face?

Dance, you mud turtles, dance!

That's as clear as mud.

It had to be dug out.

They said, Don't talk to us about Play Doh.

It's a hot plate made of clay.

created from the clay of the river valley

Tortoises wallow in thick volcanic mud

We'd never get her off this mud.

Well, must I cross through the mud?

Archaeologists note a dramatic adoption of Tiwanaku ceramics into the cultures which became part of the Tiwanaku empire.

And there on the smaller scale, the scale of an earring or a ceramic pot or a musical instrument, was a materiality and a soulfulness.

To make matters worse, her husband died.

This is called mud wrestling in the rice fields.

Yes. This is made of terra cotta, baked earth, so it would break into large chunks, so it wouldn't shatter,

There's more mud than you think.

The soil and water in mud haven't actually changed.

We mashed the clay with our feet when it came from the hillside.

Get your eyes out of the mud and look up at the stars.

Cheer off, you blasted mud turtle! There's no room!

Ha ha ha ha!

The lotus flower blooms in the Nile's gray mud.

Each mirror, there are four of them, is made of a single piece of glass, a monolithic piece of high tech ceramic, that has been ground down and polished to such accuracy that the only way to understand what that is is to imagine a city like Paris, with all its buildings and the Eiffel Tower, if you grind down Paris to that kind of accuracy, you would be left with bumps that are one millimeter high.