How does working in clay employ a performative element? I think from the artist's perspective, throwing clay pots includes a luxurious component that involves the moments when the wedge actually assumes shape and becomes the basis of its new entity. There is a fulcrum for this experience. At a certain point the piece is placed squarely into its final form and all the rest of the movements are merely elements of finish, decorations, riffs on the central theme.
Size plays into where the 'selfness' of the will be realized. A small piece is truly more self-contained, has less room for those variations. A large piece can acquire a large amount of embellishment without changing at the core. But that revelatory moment of new being is in fact a performance.
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