Big Gulps, Huh?

For my final project I decided to use the concept of iteration to create a sequence of varied interactions between apples and glass. I wish to experiment as much as possible and push myself to discover the most creative and interesting ways apples and glass can be combined. I want to test how each can affect the other based on the different methods I use. Most of the apples I plan to carve or peel so that they will dry out and remain preserved and I will take the apples in various drying stages and manipulate them with glass or vice versa. Some methods I want to experiment with are sealing a peeled apple in a blown form, dipping an apple in molten glass, piercing an apple with rods of glass and see what happens as the apple dries, drawing a pattern on an apple with hot glass to burn it, hollowing out an apple and pouring molten glass inside, swirling hot glass cane around an apple, make a glass/apple chain or connection using boro and flame working. My goal is to create as many variations of glass/apple interactions and try to find the most creative ways they can interact.

My proposal for the mid-term project is to project a refusal of communication by depicting a realistic representation of a facial expression appearing defiant and stern. I will create this image using small pieces of organic shaped glass which will either be painted black, sand-blasted or left clear. The glass bits will be layered on top of each other and the layers as well as the paint or sand blasting will create the shading and form for the represented face. I plan to attach all the pieces together with glue or lay them inside a wooden frame to keep them in place.