Inflated Prints
Cross-sections of the printing process itself — the molten coil frozen mid-thought and cut open. Held in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
I cut the deposit open and made it the subject. These are cross-sections of the printing itself — the molten coil stopped mid-section, every turn of the thread held where it landed. The museum keeps them now. Glass carries its past; here you can see it.
A thread of molten glass falling onto a moving bed behaves like a rope of honey: when the nozzle moves slower than the glass falls, the thread loops on itself. Brun et al. wrote down the physics in 2017 — nozzle speed against fall speed selects the pattern. These sections stop that motion mid-thought and cut it open.
Printed on G3DP2 — the redesigned MIT platform: the sections hold the deposit exactly as the machine and gravity left it.