Huzzah!
I am officialy inducted in the important places and have made some new glass work! If nothing has cracked in the lehr I should have 12 test pieces out by now! :)
I need to spend more time in the hotshop because my skills have somewhat dwindled over my year out. I cant wait to get stuck in there again! Hopefully I should pick things up relatively quickly again, for example; plates, I made so many plates at the end of my third year, I could do them almost perfectly, now I cant do one without screwing it up. I need more practice as plates will probably feature heavily in my new work.
As far as my project goes I have settled upon the main theme of body modification. I am looking at all its forms from common things such as hair dye and make-up, ranging to the lesser known practies such as scarification and eyeball tattooing. I am also going to look at the way in which we use clothing to modify our shape/look/silhouette. At this point the project may or may not lead to a glass-boned corset, I am happy to let the development lead me.
