Re-Working
After the last few tries of melting various types of plastic with still no promising results, I decided that plastic might not be the best material for what I was trying to create. After a lot of frustration I decided to put the clear plastic bubble idea on hold and try to make something new by working with what I discovered that the plastic actually can do. I talked a lot with my artist mentor and we decided to explore the melting of the green cups. My goal is to melt these cups together to create an extremely large wall sculpture out of rather common, and rather small pieces assembled into one large piece.
With the weather becoming colder it is hard to continue melting these plastic cups outside, but here is what I have so far: