Wax + Foil + Gelatine = Disaster.

Okay maybe not a disaster, but the gelatine did not perform the way I had hoped. It occurred to me the other day that Gelatine would be such and interesting material to work with alongside wax. Since they both change/ solidify overtime.  Thinking more about the contingency between the two materials, I started to wonder "What if I poured hot wax into gelatine?" 

Covered a bowl with foil before removing it. 

The wax cooled down rapidly as I poured it onto the warm gelatine. 

After 3 hours, the gelatine was still quite soft and wobbly. I placed it in the freezer thinking that it may help. The wax and gelatine was much more interesting when frozen  because you couldn't quite tell what was solid or not.

Simultaneously, I did the same thing on a tray covered in foil. The gelatine did not solidify. Instead, it was a thick liquid. Feeling a bit hopeless, I got rid of the gelatine.

The result. Wax separated from the gelatine tray.

It's hard to tell in this photo, but there was some interesting texture created  you can imagine the wax cooling down as it was poured onto the gelatine.

Am I disappointed? Yes; but only because the materials did not respond the way I had hoped. On the plus side, I think I learned a lot more about the qualities of wax by pushing it boundaries with another material that acts similarly to it. Wax is difficult to control, especially when you mix it with gelatine. By pouring it into a cooler material, the wax cools down much faster, causing it to solidify at a faster speed.