2024
Customised Ender 3 Pro 3D-printer, Aluminium V-slot extrusions, TPU filament spool
46.4 x 44 x 139cm (excluding filament spool on side)
Shown in Art Outreach Singapore as part of group show Sorry For Technical Difficulties
Orthogonal Sites is a series of installations that reorients 3D printing onto alternate, orthogonal planes of encounter. Site (1) features a repurposed FDM 3D printer mounted perpendicularly to a wall, printing ‘text’ live in the gallery. The print bed typically operates on planes (floors, tables) perpendicular to signs (walls). By resituating the print bed as a signage, the relationship between ‘objects’ and ‘marks’ is renegotiated. Keeled over, the 3D printer is no longer confined within the function of printing volumetric objects; typography instead of proto’type’.
Sites (2-4) feature assorted 3D-printing experiments in typography, imagery and materiality — displayed within 3D printed replicas of a typical FDM 3D-printer’s build frame. These frames are constructed and intersected on orthogonal planes, corresponding to the X, Y, and Z axes essential for the 3D-printer’s kinematics. The work explores production and presentation as sites of intersection by repurposing build frames as picture frames, showcasing prototypes as artworks.
