2/7/11

Cotton candy is a very difficult media to use. I went to winco and bought two small tubs of it, which we plenty for the project, but the tubs proved to be of a different texture than I had anticipated. I was hoping for wispy, semi-transperant candy to come out of the tub, like the kind that you find on a stick at the fair, but what I got was a tightly packed and clumpy candy. Cotton candy melts at the touch of just about anything. I'm not even kidding, but it mostly pertains to things that are even the slightest bit moist. To top it off, it doesn't stick when using a glue stick. This made the sculptures skin very unstable and highly unsuccessful. The only thing that it stuck to was itself, and even that was a bit of a stretch for it because the wind kept blowing it off in tiny bits. Long story short- cotton candy and metal do not mix, nor does cotton candy really mix with anything except your mouth.