3 July: There was a glass making workshop that I so badly wanted to attend. I had very little research at this stage, with only a few museum visits. One of them to the Natural History Museum in London. The experience was eye-opening and I knew if I made a volcano, it would somehow be related to my project as it does produce harmful gasses.
2 weeks later, I got my glass back. The volcano looked like a volcano but it was starting to become pretty irrelevant to the project as my main focus is of human pollution and how we are harming everything including us. It is still good experience as I now know to to make glass. The iceberg did not glue back together however, it turned out well in the end as I watched Our Planet
I made a volcano out of glass frits and a bullseye glass sheet. I didn’t want to just make one glass sheet. I wanted many that came together to form a volcano like how volcanoes form land. To cut the glass sheet, I used a glass liner to direct me a straight line as I used a glass cutter to cut out the shape. To glue the frits on, I used a glass glue. Later on, they will be put in the kiln ready to be fired and melted. I thought it was a waste to do just one so I did another one with an iceberg. I went to the Scott Polar museum and took a picture from there. With the iceberg, I took out a white glass sheet and cut it according to the shape of the iceberg. This shape was hard to cut as the sheet was thicker than the translucent one. Eventually I broke the glass which made me so annoyed but I kept going. I added different shades of blue frits to the cut out glass. I used glass glue to glue the broken bits back to the main bit and put it in the kil hoping it would stick.
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