Molding and pouring sugar

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to

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hold the Silicon together which is

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plaster and wood and that's called the

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mother mold and then you have have to

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have a hole somewhere to be able to pour

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your sugar into and you're cooking sugar

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and you're pouring it in it's going into

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the hole and it's coming up and there's

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all these Bubbles and all crazy stuff

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happening happening and then it fills up

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and then you close it and then you wait

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till the sugar actually hardens it takes

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about 12 hours then there's time to open

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it and then you hope that it actually

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worked and the sugar went everywhere

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into all the difficult parts of the mold

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so there's also lots of trickiness with

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molds air pockets and all that kind of

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stuff you have to look out for once

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you've done that you open it up and you

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can take out your sculpture then I have

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to protect it like super fast and if you

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do that then um you have a finished work

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the cooking of the sugar process is

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interesting you're generally just using

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the normal sugar you get from

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supermarkets white refin sugar mixing it

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with water and then adding corn syrup or

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grape sugar you have to cook it quite

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hot to 140° and then you can add color

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to it that's the one secret I'm not

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going to dulge most people will just use

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normal food coloring that will degrade

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over time it will lose its color so I've

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found some special color that that

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doesn't degrade in the heat what are

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some of the challenges of working with

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sugar working with sugar is a unique

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thing it's incredibly