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after looking at various options to attach the sculptures to the wall I decided the best method was to insert something actually into the sculpture, I decided to use wooden dowels as they were strong and made from a natural material rather then a man made material, I set the dowels into the sugar in the pouring process of the sculpture.

I then drew out and drilled the holes for the dowels into the wall and plan to paint the wall next to make it look more professional.

when I done this piece I realised it had stuck to the mirror I had put it on that then gave me the idea of mounting the pieces vertically and filming the piece until such time it falls of and smashes to the floor , I love this idea and haven’t given up on it get but trying to work out how exactly how to do it is quite technically challenging and expensive, so have put the idea on hold at the moment until such time I can work out a way to execute the piece.

this led me to the idea of attaching the sculpture directly to the wall, I looked at gluing or permanently attaching the sculptures to the wall but wanted to interchange them to create not just the piece on the wall but a painting of sorts as the pieces melted down the wall.

I then had to think about the design, and whether I would position them randomly or in a curtain sequence, I didn’t want to make anything to obvious but I still wanted it to relate to the process.

in the end I decided to write out in a sense the chemical formulae for inverted sugar making each element a dot on the wall ectra h2o would be three dots and so on.

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my next step was to test out a smaller version of a bigger piece I wanted to do, this involved a pile of figures about 15kg or 200 figures piled together all at different stages of caramelization, the idea was to let the figures melt over a period of time and record the process. I recorded the process over a period of about three months.

I liked this piece as I was really interested in the tactile quality’s, colours, texture and surface. I put the piece on a mirror to add depth to the reflections.