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MARIJE ELISABETH

I solemnly swear I will make and make and make and make and make and make and make

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Department Graphic Design

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What is craft (baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more)

The first week of the practice felt as if I was introduced into a new world. It was filled with discussions about craft and fusion; the skill that has been assigned to our group. After the first gathering with the whole class, our group came together to discuss fusing. What the hell is fusing? It turned out to be really con-fusing. We found that for everything one can argue that it is fusing or that it is not fusing. One example for us was felting. Some of us thought that it is fusing, because you put two components (water and soap) together to change a material (wool into felt). While others thought it wasn't really fusing, because the material (wool) doesn't change its composition. It stays wool, only the form changes. Those opinions on fusing and also the question about what is craft and what is not, made for an interesting discussion. And finally this small summary of or thoughts on fusing:

Fusing is the beginning of all living things. It is the process of combining
two or more distinct entities into a new whole. Having that said: we are all
products of fusing.
Other than making babies, there are endless possibilities with fusing.
Endless entities; materials, liquids, cells, atoms, matter, code, etc. Endless
ways of arguing if a certain combination of entities can be seen as fusing.
Fusing is a paradox.
Fusing is irreversable but not necessarily permanent.
Fusing is confusing.

Historical example

Research

I wanted to explore colour-mixing. I started my research with a material I already had; paint. I documented the paint mixing with video's and swatches of the different mixes.

Materials

New Skill

Transfer Heat Press Open Course

I have attended the Open Course about the Transfer Heat Press, just because I was curious about the machine. While taking the course, I discovered that there's way more to it than just the old fashioned shiny foil on paper and videoflex on textiles. People made actual paper from coffee with it. You can melt stuff with it. Someone made a textile made out of banknotes with it. So many possibilities! And if there's something I like, it is to have a lot of things to do with one machine. So I went and experimented with the Heat Press. I already had materials left from the shared example, so I brought them to the Heat Press hoping I could melt them together. But unfortunately almost all the materials I had we're made from rubber, and the Heat Press couldn't melt it. I did have some plastics with me, but not enough to get interesting results:

I also tried to melt some of the rubber things in between clingwrap:

That did give something interesting results, but not quite yet to my liking. So I continued trying something that I had in mind while also thinking of my historical example: to mix paints under the heat press. I tried this on the spot by putting paint drops on clingwrap and folding that, but the paint wasn't dry at the point I put it in the heat press. Resulting in a big mess on the baking sheets because the pressure of the press caused the paint to spread everywhere. However, the clingwrap itself did melt with the paint on it. It made an interesting texture, so I wanted to explore this method further. I think that if I prepare clingwrap with paint and let it dry before using the heat press, it will give me less mess and hopefully similar results. To be continued..