How to Cut Clay for Figurine Sculpture

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"JORGE BENLLOCH: Okay, now we are going to start cutting one little slab here, maybe two. This is going to be the support of the figurine. It's going to be a skirt, long one, wavy. Let's see how this works in here. Yeah, maybe we need slightly a little piece more and we are going to use the rest of the other one, the rest of this piece now to make the body. Okay, now we are going to put together these two pieces. Like always I do, we just try to meld the two pieces together then we have like big slab here--too big, I know. Then we're going to cut; now we are like tailors here. We are like fashion people. We are going to do like that. For example, we are going to put this in the center like a big--we are going to--now, let me see, like that exactly. Then we are going to cut this, whatever, with it. Then this piece is going to be the rest of the skirt. We just cut this out and we have the base of the figurine. We have to construct the figurine on top of that cone that later this cone, we are going to make it that it looks like a skirt or something like that. We have to pull this a little bit out. In fact, I put this structure maybe with no need for that but in case. Okay now, we have the base. Now we have to have the waist."