Signal A Running Record of Findings from the Internet / October 12, 2026

Burnished Clay, and Coral Where the Head Should Be

Maria Carolina Baulo sits down with the Argentine sculptor Daiana Ares and gets her through the whole process in her own language: how she burnishes ceramic by hand until it holds light, why paper pulp behaves differently from clay, and what happens when a figure out of classical myth is finished with a piece of coral instead of a face. A labelled transcript, published in Spanish, about objects small enough to hold.

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