Darwin's Floating Head

Cristina Amati

Materials: wool mix and cashmere yarn, crochet hooks, pillow stuffing

 

A pensive, fatigued but indefatigable scientist - Darwin - pictured as a floating head of wisdom and inquiry, with long beard studded with sparks of insight into the natural world. This project explores an alternative method of additive manufacturing by "filament deposition" where the filament is yarn and the technique is traditional crochet used untraditionally for geometry rendering.

 

© UCL, Institute of Making/Robert Eagle

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