Verification
Year: 2013
Audience: Adv. Model Making, UTS.
Technique: Gypsum and Wax Casting, CNC Routing, conventional and powered woodworking, Automation prohibited.
Medium: Mixed media sculpture.
| The course aimed to explore the entirety of the UTS fabrication labs through a narrative surrounding a found object. Though most followed a trajectory of incorporating their found object as a component within a larger contraption, this study centred on reproduction, and interrogation. Beginning with a few sheets of craft glass found by chance, I looked to the techniques at hand to reproduce the artifact. Various meathods of casting offered themselves, settling on stone and wax. Undeniably far from the original, however I was aiming for more a doppelganger than a twin.
Production then pivoted towards tools for comparison, forgery against originals. Each tool provided feedback, testing hardness, timbre, contents and transmittance. The resulting artifacts were an analogous to rigor. Not precise within their derived functions, but produced through the newfound knowledge through a range of fabrication techniques. The production and verification were a means of diversion, to conceal the testing of technique through the scrutiny of copies upon copies of an irrelevant artifact.
