Moonstone

Alabaster is a stone with in similar properties to marble and chalk. In Italy, this variety is found almost exclusively in the Volterra area. Volterra’s alabaster is considered the most prized in Europe for its characteristics of transparency, veining, translucency, smoothness. The idea of my experiment was to understand if the translucency property could persist even using the alabaster powder instead of the “raw” material. In my experimentation phase I wanted to make a sort of dough and to test more types of binders. I mixed the alabaster powder with water and two types of flour (rice, manitoba) in different quantities and in different thicknesses. The different types of flour and quantity of alabaster generated different results and translucency levels in the samples.