These are some photographs of the sculpture during the melting process. On the left it could be seen how the flames have deformed some buildings. The photograph on the right is of an organic shape, formed on the base from accumulated melted wax.

The photographs above show our final sculpture before it has been melted. To finalise its look we spray-painted some of the wax buildings silver and painted the base black.

The final part of our project involved melting the wax city, therefore we fit wicks into some of the sides of all the cast wax buildings.

Having finished the wax buildings we made a square base for them using MDF. As there is a wooden rod running through the buildings we decided to slot them onto the base. In order to do this we had to drill holes in the MDF and then chisel them into square shapes. Photograph above shows all the buildings fitted onto the base.

Some of the final building casts we did could be seen in the left photograph and on the right are the 'skeletons' of the painted on wax models. The casts took a much longer time, as we built five moulds we had to do the casts over two days to get more buildings.

The first few days of events we spent experimenting with wax, this gave us a chance to learn different wax manipulation techniques as well as some of its characteristics. The photograph on the left shows a roll of wire mesh that has been coated in wax using a brush. Adjacent photograph is of the first wax cast we did. In the end it was decided for both techniques to be used for the skyscraper models.

These are some initial concept drawings. Illustration to the left is a personal concept showing a wire mesh sculpture coated in wax. The illustration to the right is my take on the idea the group came up with. It shows a city made of wax sky scrapers that would in addition melt and drip into a water basin, creating organic shapes.