works - sculptures |
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| light sculptures - the family of plastoids |
| In 2012 I began making light sculptures, from the idea of tranforming recycled plastic waste into form. I made several so called ''Plastoids'', sculptures with a core of plastic waste and led light inside, transformed with heat and then sculpting the outward shell of the form with a thermoplastic material: hotglue. I always use a yellowish waxy type of hotglue sticks that have an attractive organic transparency. These works often radiate small deep ocean life. |
| hot glue |
| From working with the hotglue pistol a whole new series of light sculptures emerged. With the use of a metal structure with a turning base (the vertical builder) I make mostly vertical sculptures. While turning the object I apply thermoplastic material ''line on line'', a bit like how a 3D printer works. This technique of drawing lines by hand results in very organic shaped sculptures, most reminiscent of fungi, shells and situations of a geological nature. The work is very time-consuming and therefore has a lot to do with the passage of time, which is visual by its ''tree-ring'' like texture. Another series of hotglue works are squares or rectangles filled with chaotic patterns with shapes mostly reminiscent of mysterious ocean bottoms. |
| 3d pen |
| A further evolution of the sculpting process with hotglue was the use of the thermoplastic material PLA, polylactic acid, a bio plastic. This material comes as a filament (wire) on a spindle, which I apply with a so called 3D pen. Most of the time I use near transparent material, which can be externally illuminated by electral light or the sun. The sculpting method is ''line over line'' or ''dot on dot''. |
| here are a few examples: |
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| ''amplissimum cum longis'' - 2018 - recycled plastic waste, led light, hotglue sculpting |
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''postatos pecuarios plastoid 2'' - 2015 - recycled plastic waste, led light, hotglue sculpting |
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| ''entropy membrane'' - 2023 - 3 mm thick themoplast sculpture on glass |
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| ''turrim plastoid'' - 2017 / 2018 - on the vertical builder - circa dit arnhem 2018 |
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| ''turrim plastoid'' - 2017 / 2018 - hot glue sculpting |
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| ''plana amet plastoid - artoll version'' - bedburg hau (d) 2018 - hot glue sculpting, led light |
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| ''the basement plastoid / fundamentum plastoid'' - einbeck (d) - 2019 - led light, hotglue sculpting |
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| ''leoninus plastoid'' 2020 - externally illuminated sculpture, 3d pencil sculpting, PLA |
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| leoninus plastoid - 2020 |
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| small externally illuminated 3d pen sculpture (approx 20 cm) - 2020 |
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| recycled print cartridge applied with 3d pen sculpting |
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| ''spruit - shoot'' - 2018 - ceramics, 3d pen sculpting |
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| slide for the plastoid cell projector - 2018 - 3d pen sculpting |
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| '''toilet-roll plastoid'' - 2016 - hot glue sculpting |
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| ''jerusalem artichoke'' - 2016 - hot glue sculpting' |
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| ''erexit quadratum plastoid'' - 2023 - hotglue sculpting, acrylic resin dispersion |
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| ''entropy transparent'' - 2018 - 3d pen sculpting - spurensicherung - artoll - bedburg hau (d) |
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