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Biomimicry: We were looking at this a couple of weeks ago and whilst researching how this is used with ceramics I found it’s mainly from a design perspective. Replicating coral reefs for example .. so today I had a little play making a few samples of my own.

Project Containment: Experimenting with the concept contain, and thinking what I had to hand at home, I took another balloon.. blew it up, not too big. I then wrapped ribbon around it .. this way and that. Coated it with pva glue and then wrapped in cling film. What happened quite quickly was that the balloon began to shrink. Leaving the shell of ribbon and clingfilm around it. I had no idea what would happen but it’s pretty.

Project Containment: Not really sure where I’m going with this project and having done my beehive (which I might encase in some way) I started thinking about balloons and putting something inside and then covering in clay. I brought this up in class and general feeling was the clay would be too heavy and it wouldn’t work. Me being stubborn and unable to let ideas go .. decided to try anyway. I got a balloon, popped a ladybird🐞 inside, blew it up a little .. not too much. I then wrapped clay around it. As it was setting I made some holes in it ., carefully so not to pop the balloon. Being impatient I kept fiddling with it and it cracked .. annoyingly as I genuinely think had I left it, it would have been fine. It has set me on a path though to create more .. smaller orbs .. with holes with things inside.

Project: Containment - First thinking about the project I thought of beehives, they are contained and they contain honey. I set about rummaging through my recycling drawer .. as I knew I had a fairly sturdy cardboard roll from some foil I think. I couldn’t cut it so I had to saw it into smaller pieces. I then stuck the pieces on to a piece of corex board. I painted it yellow and orange and created some smaller bees to attach to it.