I started out making hand built and thrown ceramics. However printed clay has become my new passion. Printing with clay is a mechanical and computational challenge but one can in pots that could be made no other way.
I do computing which involves understanding the geometry of folded shapes (long helical spirals) and working out how to deform them with regular repeating patterns.
I see mechanical and digital elements used to make art as being similar to paint brushes or potters wheels. There are constraints but the constraints form a bounded space within which one can be creative and develop a body of work.
The limits that are imposed by the nature of clay and of the three-dimensional printing process are also not always limits one imagines will be dominant. I have seen Ben decide to do things with the computer program that I never knew it could do.