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This work explores the personal boundaries we project to the outside world and how public and private intimacy can be expressed through our clothing. Processes such as body art, adoration and armour communicate identities and create boundaries, which are used … Continue reading
Erik de Laurens’s work challenges assumptions that one can have on the definition of industry. he seeks for alternatives that could have implications in the social and economical realm. For his graduation at the RCA he produced three case studies using broadly available and — most of the time — overlooked materials.
One of the project consists in a set of tablecloth, water container, tumblers which were designed for the monthly lunch event of a primary school situated in a cape town, in South Africa and made using fish leftovers.
In continuation of this project Erik created a surprising material made of 100% fish scales ( no added compound ). The fishing industry generates several circumstances where many tons of fish scales are leftover. Using this waste as resources for the production of his fish-scale-plastic, Erik is highlighting the potentiality of these industrial flaw.
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