New Materials
I just got started working in the glass lab again this week, so my first thought was to do something with the material. I was inspired by the guy with the electronics and fabric and thought I’d play around with some electric glass- It’s kind of perfect- It’s a good insulator and has the same (or very similar) expansion and contraction as copper so it can be attached in many ways ant the two materials “agree”. Anyway, it took too long to get the copper in the form I was looking for, so I did this experiment instead. I wanted to find a way to keep the structure of broken glass. I thought that if the whole thing were dipped in rubber before it was broken it might have some qualities of each material. I got some of this nasty stuff:
And I coated a cup that I had made earlier in the week.
I left the rubber stuff to dry overnight (which it didn’t- at least all the way) and smashed the cup on the floor. The result was actually surprisingly more rigid than I expected.
I had made two similar items so that I could compare the two, so I repeated the process on these guys
I ended up only breaking the neck of this vessel because there was so much still wet rubber inside of the ball…
this project smelled bad and got red shit everywhere. sweet.