The expansion of my library of raw materials - Internation Academy of Ceramics presentation

This video was created for the breakout sessions of the 51st Congress of the International Academy of Ceramics in Alcobaça and Caldas da Rainha in Portugal.
The title of my presentation is: The expansion of my library of raw materials.
And here is a brief description of my talk: Hands that collect, manipulate, display, assemble, hold: so many evocations of the gestures that permitted this vast project to take form. Throughout her recent research, Amélie Proulx meticulously collected hundreds of rocks and minerals to integrate them into her porcelain and explore the possibilities of firing them. With the use of websites archiving former prospections and mining sites in Québec (Canada), she travelled across the province to find alternative raw materials to incorporate in her work. This project started with the premise to work with more local materials and become more self-sufficient and less dependent on raw-material suppliers. It turned into a project in which many different rocks that she had collected became both new raw materials at the foundation of her latest body of work and the focus of that work, as well.