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| Snotty Vase - Marcel Wanders |
The shape of Marcel Wanders’s Airborne Snotty Vase: Pollinosis, 2001, is based on one “bloblet” of fluid from the shower of microscopic particles expelled when a person sneezes; a digital image of the particle is sent to a prototyping machine in which a computer directs a laser to melt and mold plastic powder into the shape that the sneeze particle occupies in space. (Each of the five vases in this series is named for a different infectious condition.) It might, on the face of it seems pretty frivolous and overtly contrived but the basis of these designs is to create a shape which has never been seen before. Personally, I love all 5 vases, for me they capture a moment in time, albeit based around one of the most humble human actions.
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