Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) and Acetone.
Steel and Rust.
Making an ugly object that utilizes two seemingly disparate materials in an unusual way
Ugly table-top flower famp - Steel and Foam.
strong/heavy vs soft/porous.
poor wiring and the bulky switch.
Responding to the topic of climate change
An ugly object inspired by a sense
Inside-out speaker.
Artificial obscolescence: at the end of their life-cycle, electronics will end up either in a landfill, or in the hands of workers to recover the valuable heavy metals from the circuit board. The hazardous chemicals contaminate everything around them.
Sonically, the music playing is an intentionally dissonant, dragging and bloated sensory assault. It is a song called “Swarming Opulence” by the experimental-noise and progressive black-metal band “Imperial Triumphant”.
Some of the lyrics:
“The sky no longer the limit
A sea of iron and energy
Gaze down at the fleshy drones
Black smog and sentient gears
Swarming opulence
Begs our weak hungry minds
Greater than man
Higher than God
Swarming Opulence,
that which never stops consuming”
Ugly Color Palette into an ugly form
moldy still life. P**omegranate, eggplant, and zucchini. Shaving foam to create the appearance of light-blue mold.
An ugly object that makes people laugh
If entropy were a room-mate, expect to live in a state of ever-increasing disorder, tending towards a homogenous mess. The arrow of time does not move backwards. The deformation of bubble gum is not reversible, a deck of cards doesn’t spontaneously un-shuffle, and once out, tooth-paste cannot be returned into the tube. There is something beautiful about intentional order, but there can be something intriguing and relaxing about homogenous disorder ; like (old) TV Static, or the sound of a waterfall.