The free project is actually a lot harder than most would think, you have to limit yourself to random stuff around you, or something under three dollars. I first started with a wooden piece that I had drawn a bunch of random stuff on, and had some other people draw on, and then I was going to burn the doodles in, but it didn't end up working out the way I wanted it to, so I decided to something else. I found a bunch of ribbed hot glue sticks, that don't work for any of the glue guns we have, so I decided to put them to use. I started by cutting off some small sections of the glue and slightly melting them with a heat gun. I repeated this process multiple times until I got the look that I wanted. The glue was melted on a small piece of dry wall, and once the glue was built up it had an organic almost icy look to it. I had a lot of the glue left over so I thought, "why not make another?", I wanted this one to be a little bit different than the first one though, so I painted the white dry wall blue, red, and purple, and then melted the glue on top of that. Both turned out better than I could have hoped. I have really enjoyed making abstract sculptures, watching them change forum, but still looking cool, abstract could be anything, and that is one of my favorite parts of art.