Can this be done?

[Rob Morey]

I’ve been in a slump lately and searching for direction. I turned to my older sketchbooks and found some great ideas. I have always enjoyed the idea of cubism and it’s play with the concepts of time and many of my earlier drawings are of chairs done in a cubist style with the intention of creating a series of sculptures from them. So now here I am, stuck in this slump, so I figure what the hell and make myself a chair. I would really like to make it out of glass. I could make all of the components individually and then tack fuse them together. I am not so sure that casting would work because of the thin areas. Ron Coleman used sand when he made his boxes. If Ron can’t respond, does anyone know what kind of sand he used? Does anyone have any other ideas of how I could do this, or should I just stick with wood or clay? Anyway, here is a link to a chair that I made yesterday out of balsa wood. It is 11â€

[Ron Coleman]

Rob

The sand I used was just blasting sand. It is silica sand and not good to breath. Try olivine sand used in the metal casting world if you can find it.

As for the chair, how about slumping one, a one piece chair out of glass would be cool.


Try this link as a little teaser.

http://designmatcher.com/nl/gallery_det ... leryID=234

Ron

[Rob Morey]

Thanks Ron,
I’ll look around and see what I can find in this area. If not here, then I’m sure to find something in the LA area. This will be an interesting project, I’m sure. I checked out the link. I’m thinking one sheet of glass, real thin, maybe some texture or silk screened images. Hmmmmmm.

Rob

[Suzan]

I'm afraid I can offer no help on this, but I LOVE that chair! It reminds me of childhood visits to the Science & Technology Museum.

Good luck,
Suzan