After making your plaster casts, did you find that some objects were easier to cast than others?  I made only one cast so far.  The kale was easier to cast than the carrots because I cut the carrots crosswise and they were a little difficult to pick out.  One carrot's cast got messed up.  The kale was really easy to cast.

Are there details that you did not expect to show up in the plaster or did you lose detail? I hoped the carrot texture would show up more in the photograph.  Perhaps if I painted it differently, the very tiny ridges around the carrots would show up better in the photograph. The kale would also show up in the photograph better if it weren't shiny.

Could you repeat a pressed image into the clay and create an interesting pattern of repetition? I could have easily used the same carrot for all the carrots casts and the same piece of kale.  They were pretty durable.  I used 3 different carrots, though, for slight variation.

Did you manage to get rid of all the air bubbles or did they interfere with the surface quality? I got rid of all of them.  Right after I poured the plaster, I put my project on the top of the wash machine and ran an unbalanced load on the spin cycle.  It was fun to see the bubbles come to the surface.  I didn't notice any bubbles in the surface of the final piece.

How did you incorporate variety, rhythm, and balance? Is there an organizing order from the mix of impressions made in the clay? Was that order balanced and achieved through repetition, spacing or other visual clues?  I incorporated variety by using 2 different vegetables (carrots and kale) and by using 3 slightly different carrots.  There a radial balance in the way the 3 carrots radiate from the corner where their stems congregate.  The repeating carrots create one steady rhythm, and the kale background provides a sort of "white noise" underlying rhythm.  The organizing order of this composition comes from repetition and spacing.