A little experiment in Anti Gym

It was isolated in a quiet room. It takes the clay or bread dough (about 250 g) plain neutral color. Place a revival accounts or minutes hand and the rule to ring in fifteen minutes. It sits comfortably as possible and begin to knead the dough until it becomes soft. It forms a ball, then closes his eyes and begins to shape a character. We keep eyes closed until the end of the work. At the alarm, open eyes.

The emotion is immediate.

If we are sincere, we can not remain indifferent indeed discovering his creature. Sometimes, the heart sinks as suffering seems heavy to wear for that tiny body of clay. The face has no features, it is a round or oval a vague, yet there is nothing more expressive than these bodies we model closing her eyes. The tenderness rising edges of the lips and compassion, as if we suddenly saw his double defenseless and vulnerable unveiled.
After the first shock, watch your character.

The report of the head, limbs, trunk. Watch the root member, the arms and the shape of the shoulders if any. See the root of the thighs, the shape of the legs. Sometimes they are in a single block, the image of him that complained of being mired in the past and remain "both feet in the same shoe." View and neck shape or notice the absence of neck. Then placed the figure in profile and from behind. See if the feet or hands, breasts, sex. See if all is fragmented, made of pieces butt jointed together somehow ... Do not throw it too fast. The first character is a witness. With the second or third, we can measure progress. All have a family likeness, we see traces of the neck bent or flattened thorax. But traces fade gradually, arms and legs and say the body of clay develops at the same time as developing the body of flesh.