Make a rigid object using an additive process (such as 3D printing or another process).
The output of this assignment will be used to create a 2 part mould in the next week.
Here is what I made this week:
Well... It is a complete failure.
Made a wrong decision on materials.
Hopefully by this weekend, I'll make another one.
😟 😔
Some documentation of this failure:
Intention:
The initial idea of this work is to use steel wire as the material that builds a shape/structure of an object, then fill in some kind of "stuffing material" to make this object rigid.
I first thought about making a concrete hand sculpture with steel wire and clay.
Considering it would be easier to use steel wire to model the concrete hand if it has the same size as my hand, I was planning to make this object into a life size hand sculpture. So I chose the hardest and strongest steel wire I could find at Blick, as the steel has to hold the weight.
I chose the self-harding clay as "stuffing material" because I didn't have any experience with clay modeling or sculpturing. Self-harding clay seems easy to start with.
However, it turned out that the hardest steel wire is too hard to bend into an accurate object's shape and it hurt so much when I was trying to twine it around my hand.
So I decided to give up the idea of making a hand sculpture but try some other shapes instead.
I started with basic shapes and then kept bending the steel without an ultimate goal. Just wanted to see how it went and simply follow the flow.
⬅️ This where the flow led me to.
Filled it with clay.
THE END.
Intention:
This time what I was trying to do was using air dry clay as material to 3d "print" a small sculpture and I would be the functioning 3D printer.
Process: