THE MAKING OF GLASS

GIS.TO ROBOTS

THE CONCEPT. WE USED KIDS

CLAY, PAPER, AND RANDOM BOLTS

FROM A PIECE OF FAILED IKEA FURNITURE

SCULPTED A ROBOT USING

PRO CLAY THEN BAKED IT IN THE

OVEN TO MAKE IT ROCK HARD

IT WAS THEN TIME TO MAKE MOLDS USING OOMOO. A

DELIGHTFULLY TOXIC AT-HOME MOLD MIX (THIS

TOOK US 3 TRIES TO GET RIGHT)

THE TRICK TO ACTIVATING THE

HARDENING IS TO MIX TWO PARTS OF THE OOMOO TOGETHER. THE

COLOR ENDED UP BEING “LIGHT

GRIMACE”

VOILA. A FLEXIBLE MOLD WAS

READY THE NEXT DAY. THE CLAY ROBOT STILL

INSIDE.

WE CUT THE MOLD OPEN AND RIPPED OUT THE

CLAY ROBOT. HERE’S KATIE CHANNELLING

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE

WE USED THIS OLD CROCK-POT TO HEAT UP WAX AND POUR INTO

THE MOLD TO CREATE LOTS OF

WAX ROBOTS ONE BY ONE.

THEN WE MADE CHILI (NOT)

NOW THAT OUR MINI ARMY WAS READY, IT WAS

TIME TO GET TO THE HEAVY-DUTY

MAKING

WE MIXED ABOUT 50 LBS OF

PLASTER AND CREATE 3 SETS

OF ROBOT MOLDS THAT WOULD END

UP IN THE KILN

THE NEXT MORNING WE

HAD THESE CAKE-LOOKING

CYNLINDERS WITH THE WAX ROBOTS INSIDE

(HEAVY)

THE NEXT DAY WAS SPENT USING AN

INDUSTRIAL STEAMER TO

MELT THE WAX OUT LEAVING THESE EMPTY ROBOT SPOTS

TIME FOR THE GLASS STUDIO.

THE GOOD FOLKS AT CHICAGO HOT

GLASS WERE SUPER HELPFUL

WE POURED BLACK GLASS FRIT INTO THE EMPTY MOLDS AND POPPED THEM IN THE GLASS OVEN

72 HOURS AND 155O DEGREES LATER WE HAD

SOME SHINY GLASS ROBOTS.

WE WERE FEELIN’ HOT HOT HOT

GLASS FORMS IMPERFECTLY SO

WE USED THIS DIAMOND WHEEL TO SMOOTH OUT THE EDGES. THIS

WAS ODDLY RELAXING

DIRTY…BUT THE ROBOTS WERE

READY TO LEAVE THE GLASS

STUDIO

KATIE WAS NOT LACKING IN SHOE

BOXES, SO WE SNAGGED ONE

FOR SAFE TRANSPORTATION

WE PAINTED AND LACQUERED

THESE BAD BOYS UP, THEN

WATCHED THE BEARS LOSE

(AGAIN) WHILE THE ROBOTS

DRIED

GLASS GISTO ROBOTS!!!!

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