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Ms. Debra Folz
Industry: Furniture + Product Designer & Maker
Position: Owner / Designer
Agency: Debra Folz Design
A curiosity towards time keeping inspired an investigation into natural phenomenon and historical methods of tracking the passing of time through objects. An hourglass does this by using sand, open space, and the displacement of material due to gravity. Intrigued by the connection between contrasting activities that occupy the same space in time, I used the below comparison as inspiration for a glass vessel which compares time instead of keeping it.
Your fingernails grow at the same rate that continents shift.
These two natural occurrences happen at the same rate, one is small and insignificant and personal to you [fingernails growing], the other is a grand scale and something that affects the entire world [continents shifting], yet they occur at the same time at the same rate. This vessel is entirely made of fused pyrex glass. The center disk is waterjet cut to create voids of text which reference the comparison, and allow for glass bead to flow through. When a user activates it by flipping it over, the glass bead falls through to slowly reveal the text.
Materials: Pyrex glass, glass bead.
| Available for: | collaborations & connections |
Skills
IT  Autodesk AutoCAD Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator | Crafts/Manual Knitting machines; manual-knitting; crocheting; embroidery; basic in handloomCastingWelding and fabricationWoodworking |
Languages English | Other Hand sketchingHand RenderingModel makingprototyping |
