ASU2. I think i am making less and less sense as i am writing this blog/research file/reflective journal. I feel like i may have missed things out but also that time is running away with itself and i need to get the main things down before it is too late. 
To this end i am writing about candles. I made silicone moulds of candles, a beeswax candle and a thin red christmas candle that i found in a drawer with a couple of others. I also cast, using burn out, two beeswax candles that are bound together by flashing, i kept them bound, it felt right. The candles go with the matches i cast last term. They represent light, hope, prayer. A candle is powerful symbol. In difficult times light a candle, if you can't literally light a candle do it metaphorically. And you can be that candle, a light, for someone else too. I wonder if that was who Mary Magdalen was for Jesus.
Just as the candle is a symbol so too is the cup, or the chalice, goblet or bowl. When i was out looking at representations of the stations of the cross i went to Norwich cathedral and came across the cathedral's collection of  silverware. The christian church has hoarded wealth for many a century and continues to do so but the chalices and salvers represent more than their financial worth. They are objects that have been used in ceremony as manifestations of the cup and plate that Jesus offered to his disciples at the last supper. In all the Jesus stories there seems to be the story as it is and then an underlying tone that is not about individuals within the tale but all of us. Any one of us can be any one of  the characters. Stories take us into the mind and body of others and objects within stories carry meaning and take on meaning as a result of the story. The wine, the blood, the bread, the body, for me are like earth and water, but also the symbols that i use to conjure those i have loved who have died, Jon, my granny, my auntie Leska.  
I made bronze cups but only the broken off base of glass 1 is beautiful, the other casts are ok but not great. I made wax cups and discovered that all waxes are not the same, If i had had time i was going to make a latex cup and i would like to go back to ceramics now that i know more about mould making. 
The candles cast well and might be impressive in quantities, tho i think maybe that work has already been done. I am writing now and wondering what i have not written about or recorded and it feels like lots but i think it is not. I hope it is enough. I hope it is not too much. As i have to finish at some point i will turn over the next few blogs to image posts and then maybe end with a what i had hoped to do post to close.