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I chose this piece of plaster to go along with the shells because when I saw them sitting near each other on my desk I mistook the plaster for a shell. Plaster is an interesting medium to me because it is so tactile and also kind of annoying. If plaster is a material through which art is made, does it connote art itself in the same way that dried paint on a palette references painting? Or, because plaster is a more widely used material, does it have no meaning on its own?