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Ice Experiments,
Once I decided on the basic plan for my final piece, books with ice attached to their covers and spines (which comes of when someones tries to read the book) I then needed to decided on the best type of ice to use.
I experimented with coarsely crushing ice cubes and sheets of ice into large shards, but I didn’t think this looked good aesthetically, and it also didn’t attach to the books very well, and fell of very easily because of its size.
I then explored using natural frost, gathered from outside on frosty mornings (from cars, and windows etc…) I liked how this looked on the book as it was so white and blocked out the cover of the book. However again it didn’t attach very well and was very fragile, it would melt and slide off as soon as I touched it or tried to move the book.
I will aim to use quite finely crushed Ice instead as this attached better to the books, generally staying on until someone picks up and inspects the books.