Over the next few weeks I
will be posting less on my Blog as I will be researching, experimenting and eventually
producing a completed ice sculpture. My tutor said that in his 34 years
working for the university no one has ever tried making an ice sculpture from a
mould, but in theory it could work. I want the ice sculpture to be of the
figure as I have been working on portraiture this semester, and to get a mould
of the figure I will cast part of a volunteer’s body. The process will require
a considerable amount of research as the only way that I could make a mould
would be to use fibreglass- any other material would crack the mould as the ice
froze and expanded inside it. I also want my finished ice sculpture to be clear
and to contain an object. For this reason I am interested in casting the chest
area, making a fibreglass mould from this, and using the mould to cast an ice
sculpture with a heart frozen inside- either a real animal heart or one that I could make.
Before I do this however, I will need to experiment with freezing water to see
how clear it is; if air bubbles form the heart would not be seen. I will also
need to consider other questions such as how I could freeze the heart exactly where
I wanted it.
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