Kyoko Hashimoto and Guy Keulemans
Polylactic acid chain (large necklace 1), 2020
PLA
217.3 x 93.9 cm
Guy Keulemans and Kyoko Hashimoto with Matt Harkness PLA (polylactic acid) is the most popular form of plastic used in 3D printers. Having largely displaced traditional modelling and prototyping techniques,...
Guy Keulemans and Kyoko Hashimoto with Matt Harkness
PLA (polylactic acid) is the most popular form of plastic used in 3D printers. Having largely displaced traditional modelling and prototyping techniques, 3D printers eat and excrete tonnes of PLA daily in thousands of makerspaces around the world. It is both recyclable and biodegradable in theory, but rarely done so in practice.
These necklaces present recycled PLA sourced from makerspaces across Sydney in the form of uniquely patterned beads captured in 3D printed collars. The sphere is proposed as a fundamental shape of the universe, formed by the play of gravity across time, coalescing all matter into galaxial objects.
PLA (polylactic acid) is the most popular form of plastic used in 3D printers. Having largely displaced traditional modelling and prototyping techniques, 3D printers eat and excrete tonnes of PLA daily in thousands of makerspaces around the world. It is both recyclable and biodegradable in theory, but rarely done so in practice.
These necklaces present recycled PLA sourced from makerspaces across Sydney in the form of uniquely patterned beads captured in 3D printed collars. The sphere is proposed as a fundamental shape of the universe, formed by the play of gravity across time, coalescing all matter into galaxial objects.
Exhibitions
Conversations & Collaborations: Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert,
20 Mclachlan Avenue, Rushcutters Bay, Sydney 16 December 2020 - 7 February 2021
Sampling the Future: The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia,
Fed Square Ground Level, NGV Studio 5 Nov 21 – 6 Feb 22
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