Koch Snowfall
Year: 2020
Audience: Self Directed.
Technique: Recursive Algorithm,3D Spiralised Printing, Stone Casting.
Medium: Sculpture, Photography.
| This is one of a series of investigations into considering the Z of a 3D printer as less of a spatial dimension, and more one of flux. These objects inherent their name from the well known Koch Snowflake, and is a physical manifestation of the progressively rough iterations. Using Z allows one to view the transition from its seed object - in this case a Line, Triangle and Square - to one 4 iterations deep as a 3D object.
The imperfections that come from the fabrication process were grounding rather than depreciative. These are no longer the ‘mathematical objects’ their digital counterparts represented, rather they are mutable physical artifacts that make reference to the original, but are their own items. Finding them a purpose beyond representation alone is not a necessity, but presents a challenge for a future project.
