February - cooking!

My nieces experimenting with colour and icing sugar...

James and Simon experimenting with colour in hot glass

This was a month of consolidation and production– refining the musical instruments, checking and double-checking production and installation details for the Eye Hospital panels and working with the nurse consultant Annie Hinchcliffe to find different ways of describing the way the immune response works in the eye.

At the RCA, as well as writing and rewriting the PhD proposal, studio practice centred on a series of experiments to test each of the variables of matrix encapsulation: size and thickness of plate, different types of stencil, depth of sandblast, temperature at pick-up, set-up in the pick-up kiln.

Having joined the Gospel Choir at Imperial College in October 2010, I donned my best bling and joined my young friends on stage for the Afrogala concert. That's me at the back in the middle...