I can finally see my desk again. Everything is currently so neat and orderly, I really do not hold much hope for it staying like this.
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Well it’s been that time again. I awoke with the plan that my studio needed to be cleaned down and dusted, as it had truly become an absolute shit tip.
After much procrastination the job is done, I give it a week and it should be back to its usual cluttered, clay splattered mess😂.
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Hummmm so after my initial forays in to 3D scanning and printing I decided to look in to how much the tech to achieve this at home would cost.

In all honesty it is still rather new and technology can cost anything from £100 upwards for an actual scanner, which let’s admit it once I leave university makes this form of working rather prohibited.

So I started researching cheaper options to be able to 3D scan at home.

What I found was that you can use an Xbox 360 kinetic as a fairly decent scanner. The cost is also not too bad either as you can pick a fairly decent one up for £10.

The software to run this is provided by Skanect. In theory this should work pretty well but as you can see from the photos above there are a lot of teething problems, of which being not totally tech savvy I really do not know how to solve.

Following on from yesterday’s post 15 hours later and these photos were sent to me of the finished piece.
I would not have used silver for it but in this case the colour works so well. I also like how the support struts have also become part of the sculpture adding an unknown element to it.
The size of it is also interesting in the sense that with it being smaller it has more of an intimacy about it.
All in all I’m very happy with this and now I’m thinking of more ways to utilise this equipment .
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And so this is the 3D scanned version of my balance sculpture.
I like the way it is spinning and floating in space detached from the world around it.
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Since seeing the 3D scanner at university I have been thinking about how I could utilise this piece of equipment.Today the first steps to realising this have begun.
I had made an appointment just to have a discussion with the technician to see what could be achieved, and whether it would be possible to 3D scan one of my Memories of Moore sculptures? With the idea of scanning individual components and mixing them up in the stack.
Thankfully I took one of these sculptures in to show the technician, as we ended up scanning it and setting it up to print.
The photos show the different stages the scanned image goes through before it is ready for printing.
What is interesting is how the scanning has added an extra leg on to this piece, this could have been a shadow that the scanner read as an extra limb.
The picture which shows the sculpture in red is how it will print with all it’s supports, all these add on’s give an extra dimension to the original idea.
So now to wait in 15 hours time this will be printed and maybe another direction and adventure will begin. I’m already thinking about different printing filaments and effects.
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At it again, it took a while to realise the harmony of this piece but I think it works.
In many ways it is very experimental as the joining slip has over flowed again, on reading the instructions it says to mix the slip with a bit of clay, oh well that went out of the window.
As for the porcelain drips it turns out that this is not a porcelain slip mix so really anything can happen when the gods of fire kiss it.
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Following in from my last post ( and thinking about it these will not be in a linear order) I started thinking more about the ideas of ceramic repairs, and remembered seeing stuff o the Japanese art of Kintsugi. much more Wabi Sabi can this be, the rescuing of one’s favourite piece of pottery or China ware by glueing the cracks together with resin and then dusting the areas with gold mica or actual gold, to create a strong adhesive seal.

Aesthetically it could add another dimension to my ceramics but on another level the metaphor of repairing one’s physical and emotional scars with something better, stronger and making a highlight of these scars to make more of a history is also very appealing.

It reminds me of when my wife had her mastectomy, the scars that were left were an assault on her body and a loss of her femininity, at the time I said why not hide this by getting a tattoo. My wife and her friend turned round and looked at me aghast and the comment that came back at me was “typical man always wanting to fix something “

Eventually my wife had a Brest rebuild in many ways this also was not a great solution as what was originally there and naturally formed was gone.

In many ways society has to learn to embrace these scars of life and not turn away from them. The realisation that I was not only balancing my sculptural components but also using smashed and deformed pieces of brick, that may have a vague human form are all part of this shared trauma between my wife and I. I know that my wife did not get lover this loss she had lost her body confidence and would turn away from me when getting dressed, in reality we never addressed this issue between us as it was so traumatic.

so leading on from this I have now started thinking about the production of separate ceramic components and gluing them together in the green stage with a different coloured slip or after they have gone through the final firing, and attaching. the components together with either resin or mortar and having it all squidg out