Parts three and four were worked on at the same time. For part three, we were doing injection molding. I previously posted pictures from that during the process. At first, I was very displeased and against it. However, I think after they were colored, they came to life a bit more and I am slowly starting to like them more and more. It was a huge learning process because none of us had ever used the injection molder before...and we definitely learned a great deal from it. It took me awhile to get the hang of injecting my mold, at first it would not inject into the whole piece. Then came experimenting with trying to color it. At first I wanted to use a needle and inject the color inside hoping it would trickle down throughout the entire thing. However, this did not work the way I planned. I found RIT dye to work the best on the plastic. The dye I used for these pieces was actually a grey, however,as you can see it came out very blue which I am happy with.
Part number four of the project was making a piece in Rhino and getting it printed through shapeways. As you can see, these are the four different rings that are below the earrings. I wanted to make them more accessible than the two previous pieces I made for the series. I chose to use Sanskrit because, although the Kawa model is Japanese, Sanskrit is a language that speaks to people as "zen" and that is what I wanted to convey in these rings. Around the band they say life, health, energy, and flow. They are pinky rings printed in white strong and flexible, blue strong and flexible, black detail, and aluminoide. Unfortunately somewhere along the line of building and printing the pieces, they got enlarged and my final end product is way to big to fit on someones pinky. I am very happy with the rings and plan on re printing them in the correct size.
Hope you like them!
