Rick Tegelaar's kits of tools enables him to form chicken wire over the molds for his MeshMatic lamps. He describes the hands-on nature of the sculpting process as follows: "By stretching the material over a mold, it shrinks itself to the form and takes its shape. The tension that comes into the material from stretching stays captured to form a very efficient structure." See a video of Meshmatics here. Photo 10 of 12 in Materials and Innovation at BIO 23 Ljubljana

Materials and Innovation at BIO 23 Ljubljana

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Rick Tegelaar's kits of tools enables him to form chicken wire over the molds for his MeshMatic lamps. He describes the hands-on nature of the sculpting process as follows: "By stretching the material over a mold, it shrinks itself to the form and takes its shape. The tension that comes into the material from stretching stays captured to form a very efficient structure." See a video of Meshmatics here.