Takeshi Yasuda

I went to a lecture from renownd ceramicist Takeshi Yasuda. This was extremely interesting, the way he talked and mused over various aspects of his life and the stories he told. One thing that particularly made me think was when he talked about pyroplasticity. He said that we use this word as a way of describing the state of the clay when at high temperatures. However we dont like to use the word deformed or warped due to the connotations they have with people. We are beings of language and we compare ceramics to humans.