3D printing

I have been working with 3D printing since being introduced to it when working on the synthetic anatomy course at Kings.

The output of 3D printing often references a design context, but when exploring its structural parameters, the work references natural structures, the process is closest to making coil pots, exploring the layers gives it a handmade quality.

The work references basket, vessel, and growth, alongside concepts such as nest/home and fruition come to mind. I have found myself exploring the idea of creating work that is on the edge of collapsing, trying to explore the ‘handmadeness’ within the process. Many of them are derived from a similar starting point, the cell division that occurs at the point where life begins within the body, thus they feel like an exercise in taxonomy when viewed together.

The pieces created with the translucent material have become more complex in their construction, seeing the internal structures gives the impression of freezing individual ‘sheets’ in time. The transparency of the material brings an ethereal quality, enabling the interior spaces too be viewed, inside and outside become one.

I work with Google SketchUp, 3D Builder and PrusaSlicer to create work on an Ender3 printer