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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.

I liked this process but I enjoyed the photographs of the pieces more, but I couldn’t get the photographs professional enough because what I enjoyed about the photographs was the reflections running through them and to get a more professional picture I would need a plain background which then removed the reflections, so using Photoshop i started playing with the exposure of just the background to darken it and bring out the sculpture it worked but something was still missing.

I started then looking at installation which is what has always interested me and involving the audience with the piece, I started looking at ai wiewie sunflower seeds and work that involves the audience on a physical level.

some ideas I had that I would like to do is to fill a room of sugar where the audience has to walk over the sugar to view the exhibition I want to not only involve the audience with touch but with smell as well I want to involve the audience with the process of the work get them really in touch with how the work is made and bridging the gap where art it separated from the audience, where its process is a secret and the art is on a plinth set above the audience.

I would also like to let the sculptures melt within a live gallery environment so that each member of the audience views the piece differently it is constantly changing.

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I had one more problem with the sugar, even at the hard crack stage when left in air to its own devices the sculptures simply melted just from the moisture in the air.

this got me thinking did it really matter that the sugar melted within a natural environment? when my entire project was looking at the circle of life and all that is within it how atoms move from one thing to the next in its decay.
so I started toying with the idea of making work for it to be destroyed I started by leaving the sculptures outside to melt in the elements and soon realised the documentary photos I was taking was where my interest lay I carried on with this for a while before making new pieces.