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This project emphasizes the idea of getting out of the box when ‘thinking scientifically’ by experimenting with different compositions and offering solutions to different problems.
All the little works that drove me to do this, are for me the really important things.
Disobeying a little bit the few “true” things that my professor told me at the beginning, I started mixing materials, trying alternative ways of working with glass, moving far from the conventional glass aesthetic. I continued trying to put ceramic and glass together, breaking and refusing them. There are a few facts/topics/aesthetics that were constant in my work.
This mix of experiments I undertook, questioned but also confirmed many known facts, like the fracturing of the pieces because of the material’s incompatibility. I much prefer to experience the problem, verify that the materials will fracture because of incompatibility, rather than avoid trying to fuse them simply because I’ve been told it’s likely to result in fractures. Those are very different ways of “knowing” for me.
I have been interested in mixing glass and ceramics from the beginning, I believe this main material I’m developing illustrates that it, since I’m basically working with glass in a cold way normally reserved for working with clay. That interest rapidly got diffused due to the large number of characteristics and possibilities that my ‘hybrid’ material started to exhibit.
This thesis is the end but at the same time the beginning of endless possibilities for the development of new ways to work with ancient materials. The capability of working the glass with hands. An innovative way to work with glass as if it was a clay will be presented. Different types of glass compositions were experimented with to increase the number of possible applications. Additionally, a range of temperatures was tested to determine the response of the mixtures to different temperatures. A mixture of powdered glass with a binder and coloured enamels proved to be a successful way to hand-form glass while it is cold prior to its firing.
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clay child game play lateral thinking disobedience