Why do I 'play' in porcelain?

Why did I choose porcelain as my medium of choice to work in?  Especially since it requires a mold for me to create after sculpting the doll?  

Porcelain has a translucency to it that gives the piece an inner glow.  I guess for me, porcelain comes to life in my hands.  

Though I did not know how to appreciate this about porcelain until my mother mentioned wanting to start up her doll collection again. ​

My mother didn't have porcelain dolls as a child but instead had composition ones (I'll explain composition later and why we picked porcelain).  ​ 

Help me - I'm stuck...

So, with the fussing of trying to sculpt in a style that I can get the piece out of a mold without catching, and then making sure it doesn't crack in the kiln-firing process, and then having to paint it and re-fire again in the kiln for the paint to adhere - why use it?  

No... I am not cracking a smile.

​Porcelain is a natural clay so I could say I am getting grounded in my earth energy as I work through a character.  I love the magic of porcelain as it shrinks smaller and smaller - going from the sculpting to the finished piece.  There is a timelessness to porcelain that has been handed down through history from the Ming Dynasty to the porcelain pieces of my characters that connects me to the Ages.