Description

A John H. Hauberg Fellowship's project as part of Corporeal: 2018 Summer Class at Pilchuck taught by Yoav Reches and Angela Thwaites, with assistance from Amos Dudley, Noam Dover and Laura Rudzianskiene.

During an intense ten-day program, teachers, TA's and students coalesced into a pull of thinkers and makers using 3D scanners; 3d prints; CNC machines together with traditional sand-casting; plaster-molding and hot kiln process.

These photos illustrate a not-intuitive process started by using a 8.5x11 inches paper that I had previously crumbled and then scanned with a 3d hand-held scanner. Using 3d computer graphic softwares I extruded the surfaces of the paper (top and bottom) to create two distinctive volumes that puzzle-fit with each other, one is the negative or positive of the other.

One can look at the work as casts of negative volumes from a paper-thick layer that is no longer there. Contour lines left by the 3d printer that made it, resemble the topographic lines of a natural landscape. There is a sense of ambiguity because what it appears tangible are the voids, imaginary forms that emerge from both sides of the paper, and not the space occupied by the thin layer.

Once 3d printed then I made plaster-molds from which I obtained the two glass casts: one green and the other clear. The final work, two polychromatic blocks that puzzle-fit with each other, involves a laborious, cold-work process to remove any glass imperfection and to polish it to make it look as clear as water (top and bottom of the blocks) and opalescent (the sides of the blocks).