Native clay - Clay Bottom

Living near an area called clay bottom got me wondering about the availability of native clay. We took one of our allowed family daily walks down to the stream to have a look and we found this!

After a few days of muddling through the processing of the clay I have this lovely lump.

Now I am running through ideas of how to use this. I am thinking about the idea of collecting it as a family in isolation. Perhaps the 'Family self isolation unit', of three pots, mother, father and son. 

Breaking up the harvested clay in water.

Debris removed.

Straining water. This was taking forever since I used two layer of T-shirt fabric. I detached this and cut the T-shirt in half which was much better, I left this over night.

Incidental mark making.

After taking the water that had settled out of the clay off I laid the sloppy clay out on the t-shirt on top of two towels. It also had some time in the sun, until it became a shapeable mass.

Works by Yukiharu Kumagai whom I found in my book Urban Potters:Makers in the City

He finds the clay and processes it and then fires the works on a beach or in a field.