Update

Bike snaps

Over the weekend I got my friend John Newbold from the 383 Project to photograph me on the bike so that I coud incorporate some of the photgraphs into my installation. Here are some of them before I have worked on them:

Better results

So after these attempts I learnt a lot. I knew that I had to get a new mould and that the carrier bag idea was a good one but that it was still hard to get the plaster out afterwards. I think part of the problem was on the previous attempt it had been in a pop bottle and had a slight ridge round it which made it hard to get the plaster out and that's why I had to cut it. So to solve this I got a new pot/mould thats walls were staright but at a slight angle and then put a little bit of washing up liquid in before the carrier bag went in so it would be easier to get it out. This worked perfectly and I realised Plaster of Paris sets really quickly:

Getting there

Well I couldn't use that dish again as it's still in bits on my kitchen table, probably with bits of glass scattered over the floor. So I got some more pots and thought about how I was going to be able to lever it out. So my genius plan was to put a plastic carrier bag round the mould so I could pull it out afterwards:



But the problem was with this that I think the Plaster of Paris melted the mould or the carrier bag or something. Anyway, it didn't work properly and I had to cut the mould off:

Next step

So this was the first one that I did. I haven't used Plaster of Paris for a long time and so didn't really know what I was doing. I found this glass dish in the cupboard and thought it will do for the first one. So I followed the instructions and got the consistency right and let it set and was really pleased with the below results:



Until it came to working out how I get it out the dish. Needless to say the Plaster of Paris had the last laugh:

Practice

Unbelievable

W-CUP from Eli Tokyo Jitensha-Jin on Vimeo.