After a number of false starts, undelivered materials, and soul searching, I decided to use cardboard + vinyl as my material combination for this project. My self-defined challenge was to make it a 3D figure somehow out of those two materials.
I played around with 3d models to end up with a shape that is somewhere between a sphere and a cylinder. It seemed to fit the theme that I have recently been exploring of planes that are circular, but here with an additional dimension.
I used a freely available piece of software called 123D Make that helped me transform the shape into slices that I could cut using a laser cutter.
The circular pieces are made to stack. I wanted to make the whole thing a bit more interesting though.
I decided to use transparent vinyl pieces with a basic pattern to be placed between some of the pieces, again, to play with color and light, as I did in a previous project.
The below is one of the pieces after the first stage of the assembly + gluing.
And after another iteration of stacking and gluing:
And finally, after assembling the whole piece.
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