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Video Archives & Projections

A series of video experimentations.

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Wireframe Seat: A self-supporting structure built from 6mm steel wire, hand-bent and spot-welded into a grid strong enough to carry weight without extra reinforcement

Wireframe Seat

Through-Fixed: A solid wood plank stands as the vertical backrest, crossed by a bent steel tube frame that shapes the arms and continues down into the front legs

Through-Fixed

Steel-Bound Bench: A structure built from welded rebar, chosen for its irregular cross-section and rough surface texture rather than for precision

Steel-Bound Bench

Anticipated Wear: A brass hexagon cut, then engraved and punched with a cluster of small marks concentrated to one side of the surface rather than spread evenly, designed to visually anticipate use rather than leave it to accident

Anticipated Wear

Finger Armor: Brass and pewter plates cut, formed, and individually polished to follow the joints of the finger precisely, drawing more on medieval armor plating than on conventional jewellery

Finger Armor

Baroque Fragment

Osiris: A ring built from flat, angular facets rather than a continuous curve, filed and sanded by hand to its final shape without ever fully erasing the original saw marks

Osiris

Delta: The same ring geometry carried across three materials and three techniques: sand-cast bronze, with file marks left visible on purpose after finishing; brass shaped into a hex-nut form; and blown clear glass, with a branching structure punctuated by small deep-blue inclusions

Delta

Stylus: A soft alloy cast into the standard six-sided shape of a hexagonal pencil, then sharpened with a blade like a wooden one, gradually exposing a working metal point

Stylus

Forged Cutlery: Utensils hand-forged from raw steel bar stock - a spoon, a knife, a second serrated blade - each fitted with a copper handle cold-wrapped around the shaft

Forged Cutlery

Fixed Prism: A solid glass block, entirely hand-faceted, with cutting angles calculated to maximize internal light reflection rather than to achieve perfect symmetry

Fixed Prism

Ramifications: A clear glass ring, built at the torch around an irregular branching structure rather than a solid band, with small deep-blue inclusions added and caught in the material while it was still hot

Ramifications

Bubble within a Bubble: A piece blown in two distinct stages: a first bubble is formed, then wrapped in a second layer of glass blown over it, trapping air between the two walls

Bubble within a Bubble

Bubble Cups: A personal blowing technique, developed after several attempts, to build a thick, rounded rim on small drinking cups without thickening the rest of the wall

Bubble Cups

Inhale, Exhale: Two amber glass spheres blown separately, to different wall tensions, producing two volumes that are close but never identical

Inhale, Exhale

Glasses -/+: Colour fragments - amber, turquoise, green - set by hand into the wall of the glass before the final blow, each one stretching differently depending on its position and the pressure applied

Glasses -/+

Baroque Shards: Red-tinted glass, cast in a mold reproducing a baroque ornamental motif - arabesques and interlacing - then deliberately fragmented once cooled

Baroque Shards

Recomposed Fractures: Thin blown glass bubbles, deliberately broken into amber, green, and blue shards, then recomposed and re-fused using the pâte de verre technique into a flat, circular plate

Recomposed Fractures

Modular Shoes: Two seamless construction methods developed in parallel, working toward the same formal goal

Modular Shoes

Cluster: Vegetable-tanned leather chosen for how well it holds an engraving, cut and laser-engraved with a repeating pattern of hexagons and pentagons arranged in an irregular cluster

Cluster

Tetrahedron: Wax cast in a faceted tetrahedral mold rather than a conventional rounded shape, each face of the mold leaving a sharp edge on the finished piece

Tetrahedron

Terracotta Teapot: A hand-built body, ribbed and flared, glazed in a mottled grey that pools slightly along the vertical grooves

Terracotta Teapot

Fist Impression: Black stoneware pressed directly onto a closed fist, keeping the hollows and ridges left by the knuckles and folded fingers rather than smoothing them out afterward

Fist Impression

Moiré: A minimal vector graphic, drawn and then hand screenprinted in water-based ink on organic cotton

Moiré

Remeshed Bodies: Close friends and family scanned in 3D with a handheld scanner, then reworked through retopology and manual remeshing in Blender and ZBrush to clean up the raw scan mesh

Remeshed Bodies

Putovanie - Consultable Book: A cover cut from a thin sheet of wood rather than conventional board, bound with visible cable ties instead of a sewn, hidden stitch

Putovanie - Consultable Book

CNSD Editorial Design: Co-art direction of "Dans le silence de la rencontre", with close attention to the editorial grid, typographic hierarchy, and page rhythm

CNSD Editorial Design

Reflections - Consultable Book: A clean layout, built to bring short texts and photographic documentation of the work together into one coherent volume rather than separate sheets

Reflections - Consultable Book

Compressed Rosette: A central mark - a rosette of pentagons and hexagons arranged around a directional arrow - run through successive rotations at 90°, 180°, and 270°

Compressed Rosette

Evora Ethno tourism: A web application designed to highlight the culture and heritage of Evora, in Portugal

Evora Ethno tourism

The Student Store: An exchange platform designed for reselling secondhand tools, safety equipment, and workshop offcuts - wood, brass, acrylic - between students at the same school

The Student Store

Video Archives & Projections: Recordings and short films accumulated over the course of projects, shot specifically to follow the body and material in motion through space

Video Archives & Projections

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