Monday 28th November
Yesterday was a good day. Sat with John the technician in the morning discussing my silly idea of making 91 life sized bullets/ monuments to go in a church for the end of year Degree and situation Leeds shows. Where as everyone else said "forget about it, not possible" John said nothing is impossible, their are only things I haven’t tried yet". He spent the next half hour taking me through the process, materials and even sketched out some designs for moulds. I now had a step by step plan of what I needed to do.

First step is to make a polystyrene bullet 20mm smaller than the final piece. Then fill out a technical assistance document and get this approved. Whilst I'm waiting on the paperwork I can cover the polystyrene in a 20mm skin of plaster, then once finished apply a coat of fibre glass. take off the coat of fibre glass like a Sheaf then plain down the plaster by 10mm all over followed by another layer of fibre glass. Again remove the layer of fibreglass intact and then build a jacket for the lager fibreglass mould placing the smaller mould inside. a system of measured bolts will keep the cavity at around 10mm ready to pour in a kind of resin. And this is how I will make the bullet.

Lecture in the second half of the morning from Chris Taylor, all about book and work presentation and design. Got some great ideas for both my practice in context presentation and also the end of year catalogue.

After Lunch I cut out and glued together the polystyrene ready to shape down, then spent the rest of the afternoon making wax bullets ready for Tuesday and fitting them to sprus again, across the road.

Work and many phone calls from creditors, will need to return home to resolve (temporarily) so I did. Shit end to a good day.