In April of this year, Formfantasma undertook a similar project with sorghum, inviting master broom makers and bakers as collaborators; this time, they integrates their own research on creating natural polymers. Below, they describe their methods, to be performed at the Abu Dhabi Art Fair 2010 between the 4th and 7th of November:
Four blocks of solid pine will be excavated and carved in order to create a mould from the void in the wood. The collected waste is then reduced to a powder, mixed with natural hydraulic lime, flour, water and pressed like clay back on the wood. The material will be slowly dried by electric incandescent bulbs and later lacquered with a mixture of pine resin melted together with bees wax, so to make the bowls waterproof.
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