Lessons learned after the first day of clay/straw

 Payaka urban development

The first two lessons of the days are a couple of obvious conclusions after checking out the main tools that were used for mixing the clay. For the preparation on that sunday, there was nor the time or chance to get any better mixing device: so the first lesson is...
1) don't mix by hand! 

Many many small cuts are maybe not visible...
but I could surely feel them, as we misplaced
our cream for hands

Then after a minute of rest during the mixing process, here's what we realized...

2) check out tools and find a proper tool shop!

The nicely shaped spiral of the mixing tool we got
that day, was designed to mix paint and not clay...
and the spiral got seriously warped. Hopefully it will
resisit a bit longer...

Many other little tricks come out of every single day of practice and at the end of the day I felt that everybody was rewarded by a funny experience and by the contact with such simple matter that can be transformed in a living structure... this is a very empowering sensation and as mamma bird would say: 
"if can build your own birdnest and you can fly, you're a free bird!"
;)