Yvette Kaiser Smith creates fiberglass cloth by crocheting fiberglass she pulls from an industrial roll; crocheted into flat geometric shapes and hardened by applying polyester resin. Using maths in all of her work, Kaiser Smith identifies the work as a ‘visual articulation of mathematics’- something I want to explore in my work.

As much as I would like to create mathematical shapes and influences in my own designs, I don't think I will be able to use fibreglass so I would need to find a compromise or just take inspiration from these ideas and adapt them into different materials completely, for example, wood.

 

Kaiser Smith put a lot of effort and thought into her design too: taking articulations of 5 digits from within the number pi to create panels that appear the same, but vary in spatial depth from these calculations. This would have been very time consuming and I know if I were to go into so much detail myself, I would have to use my time wisely as the time I have to develop my own project is a lot more restricted.

I like the idea of making a collection of products, varying slightly whether it be in colour, material or purpose, similarly to the photo above of the installation- which in my eyes make miniture jewellery pots; even utilising the holes in the sides by keeping earrings together, or hair pins.

Glass itself is definitely a material I would like to work with again, so I will need to speak to the glass specialist when they are next in the workshop so I can discuss my ideas with her and develop my understanding of any limitations I may have as I only have access to the glass workshop every Thursday.

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