We held another workshop this Friday to push our installation closer to completion. Building on last week’s progress, we focused on refining the plastic flowers, solving resin challenges, and assembling the final structure.
We started by creating nearly 10 plastic flowers, cutting and melting bottles into petals with practiced efficiency, and then gluing them together. Everyone works well together to form an assembly line of plastic flowers.
The real breakthrough came with the resin lungs. After struggling with the heat gun last week, we tried a simpler method: boiling resin in a pot of water. The resin softened quickly in the bubbling water, making it easier to shape—though handling the hot material required careful gloves and teamwork!
We molded four lung-like forms and attached them to the wire branches Xinyi had made earlier. To blend the industrial look of the iron wire, we coated the branches with a thin layer of resin, hiding the metal beneath a smooth, organic texture.
Finally, we glued the plastic flowers to the resin-coated branches, weaving the elements together into a cohesive shape. Petals, translucent lungs, and wire branches hint at the interplay of breath and form.
