WEEK 7
TEXTILE AS A SCAFFOLD
For this assignment, Carlos, Eldy and myself started trying out different things in group.
CEMENT ON JERSEY
For the first experiment, we decided to use left overs of the lab. So we recicled playwwod from someoneĀ“s work on the Shoopbot, and got it in shape to be used as the frame.
Then, we found some old rope to create the structure and some jersey on the frame for the molding.
We used white cement to do the casting, for some reason nobody wanted to touch the cement, so was my oportunity to play with it.
After puting it on thr frame we did, was left over night to dry.
We did the next experiment puting plastic balls on a resing mix over cotton fabric.
FIVE PARTS OF RESING X 1 PART CATALIZER
CRYSTALIZATION
When the head piece of my previous assignment was printed, it had many filaments left over for a problem while printing, that get me the idea of see what would happen to it under a crystalization process. Also I made a test with a couple crochet pieces.
This crystalization proces was made in a different lab with 100 gr of borax for each liter of water.
First, water needs to get hot, just before boiling, then the borax is added and mixed.
The pieces that are going to be crystalized should not touch the glass, if that happens, the crystals will stick to it.
After the water +borax is in the cointainer with the pieces, this is left for 8 hours.