In this exercise, we were not told what the final product was going to be, but rather we were just handed a block of foam and sent on our way. The instructions were precise yet vague. Somehow.

After we had gotten our blocks, we chopped away at them, first creating an odd cross shape.

I have very shakey hands, which did not help the foam be more smooth. On the phone with my father, I joked that the smoothness of the foam represented your current state of sanity. I then cracked mine open to find that it was a mess. So there’s that.

The jagged-ness eventually led to me just starting over.

I got a cut on my finger, which really bummed me out, so I consulted my Scary Spice doll.

She gave me the courage to continue, and finally I was greeted with THE CHAINS!!!!!

Overall, this chain was significantly easier to make than the wire head selfies. It was hard to make them loose and realistic like actually chains, but you can’t expect that much from foam. On my second attempt, I finished it in about 20 minutes flat, while my first try took about 2 days.