Glass class - 12

More of the same, wax melting

Glass class - 11

We all worked on our individual projects but met up for tea and cake (banana and chocolate provided by Sarah) to talk about pricing!

Glass class - 6

A quick catch up with Kirstie.. and I started in on my block of Bullseye. The idea is to get to know the Machine room tools in a different way. Carving a block. Unlike wax there is no adding back of material.

Glass class - 5 Proposal

What: Sculpture with revolving parts that can be moved by the viewer

How: Open faced casts in furnace or clear crystal. Make maze in clay and cast.
Lazy susan /woodshop technology.

Why: Having free will in our culture is important, the freedom of choice is an idea we assume we have. Chance, social conditioning, nurture, nature and culture all shape and restrict our choices and our free will without most of us really noticing. Philosophers over the centuries claim that our will is not free. The maze represents to me our path of many choices and decisions with their resulting consequences. Cast glass has a misty dream like quality symbolising the conceptual, untouchable realm of thought. The plastic figures in thier vibrant colours

When: Roughly

Free will timeline
Date / week	Theory	Practical	R&D
Week 1 / July 29
Week 2 / August 4
Week 3 / 11 August			Reading
Week 4 / 18 August	Present idea to class
Week 5 / 25 August	Written proposal due
Week 6 / Sept 1		Design and draw out maze	reading
Week 7/  REVIEW WEEK	Talk with Marcus on casting with furnace	Design draw out maze to scale and test mould making process / and glass	reading
Week 8	Assess proposal statement	Build inner circle with clay and make mould	Source lazy Susan’s
Week 9		Build outer circle with clay andmake mould	Source plastic people
Week 10		Casting
Week 11 / October 13		Casting
Week 12	Artist statement brush up	Coldwork
Week 13
Week 14		Plinth building
Week 15	Assessment

Let us eat cake!

Today started in the hot shop class, trying out for the first time a conical shaped glass with a blown foot...ahum lots of practice needed. Clean up, lunch and then our proposals to Kirstie and fellow students. In the cosy confines of the resource room we explained to our peers (and external critter Patrick) our concept for the semester. Really interesting all round and good feedback. We often take it in turns to bake a cake or such, this week I think there was a communication break down..instead of no cake, or one cake we had 3!

Chocolate brownies and chocolate icing (thank you Jane), Carrotcake (thank you Nadine) and Pear and walnut cake (thank you Kirstie).

Glass class

Our Wednesday lessons have now been explained. In the morning it is the glass extension, a blowing class taught by Andrew. There are 3 in the class but those wishing to learn more blowing skills but who aren't in the class (me, cause I took the Print media elective) can join in but don't have to do the project. So blowing in the morning. In the afternoon we have Kirstie who is our teacher for our main glass component which is a self directed project in any technique.