Week 6

This week has been a pretty busy one. I made two molds, one was a two-part mold of 2 lemons and the other is a small to-go box, which is a one-part mold. The lemons are for a show that I am trying to put together in the space lab. I am trying to get a few fellow students to go in with me and do a
hip-hop themed show. The lemons represent a song that is popular in the hip-hop world. I am very excited about this show because I think that it is going to be very interesting and something that IUS has not seen before. It is also exciting because I am sort of the curator of the show.
I also tried to make the brass knuckles mold for the second time and it did not work again. i am thinking that there are some under cuts in the finger holes which is making it get stuck in the mold. I don't want to give up on this idea so i can either use plastoscene and maybe fill the spaces that I think are getting stuck, or I was thinking that I could get a pair of plastic ones. Either way I am going to be making a mold of these brass knuckles eventually.
I did the first pour into the large to-go box and it looks like it is going to be a good mold. I tried to get the cast out too soon after it was poured and it tore in a few places but the first pour doesn't really count as a keeper. I also got a few bottles and a 2-liter finished this week.


I also got my mugs glazed this week. Getting things glazed is always a relief, because it is the final step to being finished. Ceramics is such a long process, and there are a hundred things that you are trying to work on, so to be at the final step on a project is a good feeling.