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So for contemporary art practise I wanted to make casts of a balloon, at this point I'd tried making my own moulds in my own way. I'd tried making moulds at home with different things that I had in the house like old tupperwares and bits of cardboard to make walls.  This time I did with proper things that Siobhan brought in for me to use, I covered half the balloon with clay, which I had already filled with plaster so that it was hard. Because I was making a mould of something that was small a soft it was hard to take a cast of it which is why I filled it with the plaster, so that at least it was hard.   Registration marks Once I poured the plaster in the sides, it all started to leak, but there was still enough plaster in the mould we fill it to set over night.   This is the next one that I made, but this one had smaller sides and didn't leak. I again left it over night and removed it from the other half the next morning.  It was really h

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