2022
Jesmonite sculptures, sizes up to 20x20x25 cm
The sculptures are made from 3D scans of objects in the office of the reverse engineering company CGISimulations Ltd. The objects were used by Sirisha Shashikanth and her colleagues when they practiced operating a 3D scanner, a process described by Shashikanth in this video. Through scanning and rematerialization, the objects undergo abstraction processes that alter their form, colour, materiality, and scale. Detached from their original functions, they become transferable data, enabling geographic displacement and new cultural and contextual meanings.
The sculpture series was part of my artistic research PhD project Unmaking Abstractions on abstraction in 3D-modeling. The PhD project is available on Research Catalogue.
