Description: As a material that is more often than not considered sordid or dirty, applications in the fields of medicine and cosmetology create a complicated, but heightened awareness of clay as a component. It also reveals a duality that exists between itself, the attributes of cleanness, and its unsanitary counterpart. I am drawn to the inherent physicality of this material and the conflicted duality that would mutually consider it to be both sordid yet sanitary.