In the course of making our model we spend a lot of time sitting around talking about the techniques we have used in the past – which are mostly cases of trial and error. Every once in a while we learn something, and the cumulation of all this has got us to where we are now. 

Last time we were all together we decided on making another model – but this one will be a mid-stage model. Most of the bulk removed and the basic shapes coming out – no detail – just shapes. We think this might help in a few regards – it will give us an intermediary goal, which should boost our spirits when we reach it. (Sculpting for five days with one end goal can kind of get to us). 

But mostly it will afford us the opportunity to go for it in that first stage of the game – the major debulking stage. We won’t have to figure out where we need to chop away to before we have to ‘get serious’. Usually I end up worrying we are cutting in too much – which is the whole thing about sculpting that can make your mind go all thinky on you. So this should – in theory – help. 

It does mean we have to carry two models out there – and make two of our plexiglass gridded boxes – but this could be the right path for us, as we struggle with a lack of any real ‘technique’ and develop our own unusual brand of making giant snow sculptures.