When you are working on your final piece and almost everything that can go wrong does go wrong. I guess, that can apply to anything. Perhaps, many of you can simpathize with me and maybe even have your final project going horribly wrong as well.
It all started yesterday afternoon, I went to the sculpture studio to make a resin cast in my mold (rubber mold inside the plaster "mother" mold). After struggling to get my mold put together and filling the holes with clay, I took the mold over to the work bench for Prof. Matson's assistance. Everthing was setup and Prof. Matson started pouring the resin into the mold. Suddenly, resin is all over the place. I forgot to fill a hole...oops...that started the rest of my problems. When the resin hardened an hour later, the board that the mold was on was stuck to the table, but with my handy dandy hammer and chisel I got the board off the table. My next challenge was much more difficult....DUN...DUN...DUN...removing the mother mold. The resin had seeped through the cracked in the mother mold seaking it to the rubber mold, but after hours of hammering and chiseling, most of the mother mold was removed.
I then began to try to tear the rubber mold from the resin cast. This was very difficult, so I took a break and unloaded a kiln. While unloading the kiln, I managed to slice open my fingertip of my right pointer finger, which bled a lot. This disabled me a bit, so some kind, big, strong football players, working on the same assignment offered me assistance in removing the rubber mold.
Now, I 'm about to go back to the studio to finish the job. I have until 4:30 to complete it.
I'll let you know what happens in my dramatic tale.
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