This Artist Turns Mud Balls into Money

People have been transforming mud into art, aka pottery, for thousands of years. This is not a new phenomenon, but often the finished product has a certain utilitarian aesthetic, such as a bowl or vase. Bruce Gardner takes balls of mud and turns them into... shiny, more polished, hard balls of mud. And that's what makes it so damn cool. Video: . Hikaru dorodango is a Japanese process of taking a ball of mud, manipulating it into a perfectly smooth and consistent sphere, drying it, and polishing the ball until it becomes shiny. It's so simple, yet the final results are breathtaking. (Gardner... more

from WonderHowTo http://ift.tt/2gNIYpc
via IFTTT