Bang Smash Crash

During Friday's lecture we went into the workshop and discussed a few ways of interacting with our materials that might bring about an interesting result. Some of these were hitting, pulling, squashing, scraping, poking, and an array of other methods.

This sping was squashed by repetitive impact with a hammer, it took a while but gradually I was able to change its form.

Another image of the bent spring.

By bashing the leather with a hammer it took on any imprint of any imperfections in the surface it was resting on.

Bashing the leather split it in places.

I used a vice to squeeze leather pieces together.

Here you can see that the bottom of the leather is starting to squeeze together.

And the top of the leather is pushed away from itself.

When removed from the vice the Leather bits stayed attached to each other, stuck by the pressure if the vice.

I smashed the hook and misshaped it.

I was able to bend one of the ends up, although strong steel, it became malleable with enough pressure.

In the process of bending it I scratched and damaged the steel.

I also smashed the large piece of steel, scratching it and squashing it.

I was able to squash it flat whilst hitting against a small anvil, whilst holding it, I didn't realize that the metal was see-sawing into my hand, creating a blood blister.

All in all, the results above were fairly predictable, even me damaging myself in a minor way. It was however, a good outlet for anger and frustration. With further experiments to some of the materials I'm sure I can expose some interesting features, and create something I have not seen before.