Development of hot glue experiment
I have been looking at ways of building up my work, i have been using larger sheets of glass and a looser way of drawing with the glue gun. I thought that if i included more gaps and made it more fragile it would look more temporary as it could be effected by the elements more. I have also had to looks at ways of connecting it, i brought a different brand of glue and it is a lot stronger so it melted to the glass so that i could not remove it. To over come this problem i thought about greasing it, i brought a spray oil that i applied to the glass before the hot glue. This made it easier to remove it. I have also been thinking about scale, i want it to be a large human size blanket, one that can cover someone. I am not sure yet if it will be more effective as a standard blanket size or a larger throw. I also need to consider the time it takes to make, at the moment it is taking 3 hours per glass panel. The panel it only one by one foot. At this rate it is going to take me a long time to build it up. I need to think very carefully about time management with this project, i need to make sure that i have enough time to build the sculpture so that i can then experiment with ways of displaying it that are most effective. 

Looking back at my original project proposal i think that the use of clear hot glue dose communicate the frozen, it loos like melting ice falling down. I am not sure that it is as effective at communicating rain, it does not loo like droplets rolling down a window. I need to think carefully about how i can over some this problem. I also am worried that it does not communicate or reflect on the notion of the uncanny. I was really interested with he notion of the uncanny at the start of the project, i felt like it echoed my work. I wanted my work to look at materials and ways of using them in a way that made them unfamiliar. I think in a way using hot glue as a medium is different as it is usually used to go between materials, it is not usually meant to be seen. I think if i used the hot glue in a more dripping, falling way it would be more successful at showing movement.  

Ways of presenting hot glue experiment
I have been thinking about ways to present my final piece. The glue is like a material but i think it is important in the way i display it so that it communicates the ephemeral in a successful way. Suspension has been a  constant theme through out my work, it shows falling and movement in my opinion. I thought about using fishing wire to suspend it at different angles so it looked like the sculpture its self was falling. I did not think at the scale i wanted that this would be effective. I had a talk to Ann today, she helped me think of different ways to display my work. Ann also made me think of ways of including the audience  I could have the work displayed so that people had to walk through it. 

My latest idea is to hang the glue so that it creates in a sense curtains. People could part them and walk through them so that they got involved int the art. I have always like my work to be tactile, something that people will want to touch but it would be new to explore the audience archly participating in the art. I think that thought the use of people touching it and moving it, it will become damaged and tear, it might fall altogether. i think this would be really interesting, it would mean the work is always changing. It would show the temporary as the art in it self would be temporary. I am not sure if this is what i want to do completely as i think it is a bit different to what i original proposed. I wanted to immortalise throughout a sculptural way the temporary. If i do make this idea it would mean my sculpture is not forever, it would be more performance that sculpture in my opinion. 

I also considered just draping it from a central point, maybe 
nailing parts to the floor to give it a more defined shape. I am not sure if this is to simple it would mean the sculpture is just hung there, not growing out or flowing. I need to think about if this will communicate the ephemeral and temporary of just hang there like a towel.