Handling a delicate material

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unique

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thing it's incredibly difficult I'm

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doubting myself sometimes you have to be

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very careful with every step it's

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actually like treating a living thing

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you have to be so delicate with it so

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that it doesn't melt or it doesn't break

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temperature and humidity affect it

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greatly once it's made it's quite solid

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and lives for a long time the older

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sculptures I have now 14 years years old

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and they're doing well I like the

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challenge of making something that

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should be temporary permanent and now to

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Oneil Joseph's latest work his most

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ambitious yet my next project is uh

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called open heart it's going to be a

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giant sugar sculpture of a human heart

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and in a park it's actually going to be

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quite large 2 and 1/2 M high it's

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biggest thing I've ever tried to do it's

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about putting yourself out in the open

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so I'm putting my heart out there I wear

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my heart out on my sleeve so it really

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fits well we're going to cast the

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sculpture in the park we're going to

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have to cook between 500 and 1,000 kilos

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of sugar on site on the day three people

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at least cooking all this sugar for a

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good 12 hours it's going to be epic

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that's if it goes well it's got to all

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work as well it's all got to function it

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will stay there for 3 weeks and it will

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melt unless people come and ride

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generator bicycles to power and air

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conditioner inside