Industrious Adornment — Edvin Wester

Industrious Adornment explores the visual language of the public park bench as archetype and craft. It utilises constraint and defect in computer aided manufacture and traditional casting methods to adorn features and structure through experimental processes.

Sand cast in aluminium the bench is designed to hold up to any weather conditions and to last lifetimes.

To dignify the original park bench archetype the Industrious Adornment series utilises the same construction with wood slats held together with coach bolts.

EXPERIMENTATION - PROCESS - MANUFACTURE

This whole project was a process of making through research. The "point cutting round-over" bit was a tool I discovered for the CNC that allowed for a streamlining of the process that usually would be done in two parts, the straight cut and then rounding over. However from my experiments of trying to achieve a perfect round minimal form, the defects and mistakes became the more interesting driver and detail.

To further develop and understand the process of sand casting, I worked with pewter and small scaled patterns to try to learn how to to purposely create mistakes and defect. I needed to create proof of concept that the idea of "flash" or metal run out had controllable variables. These prototypes then became useful when working with the foundry.