Showing Amanda a more "finished piece" made me realize how much work I had to do. She helped me edit and focus, which is necessary for any art project. My installation in 023 is simpler now, with just a simple blue light shining on my leaves instead of my crystal photos. We talked about how crystals grow and I still want to work with the idea of fractal repetition.
I also talked with Mia and although I should be concentrating on mediums I am more familiar with, we will schedule an appointment to fuse glass in a kiln. I do still want to work with resin because it is crystal-like, but glass and mirrors seem more realistic. I found out about a type of resin that breaks like glass but is not harmful--it's called crystal clear liquid resin. So, if I decide to have the viewer interact with my objects they will probably contain that. The trick is to see how I can join/intersect multiple planes of them together safely. Fusing glass really attracts me because it can be like painting, but while it's hot you have to remember where you laid each colored cut glass and mix it intentionally. I have directions on how to boil glass too and it's similar, but the bottom layers come to the surface in bubble shapes. The end product looks like rocks and nature in general. I have only completed sculpture 1 so far, so I might need some help from any sculpture teacher when they have time to work with me.
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