“n artifact of such utter simplicity and perfection that it seems it must be either the first object or the last...”— William Gibson Hikaru Dorodango, or mud dumpling, are made of a ball of mud and plant fiber, shaped in the hand and refined into a perfect lustrous sphere through drying and polishing by hand.  The experience of making Dorodango spans from messy and fun at the beginning, creative and experimental in the middle while adding colored clays and drying…