Alex
Trained originally as a Photographer and Filmmaker; My most imagined worlds are often still defined by the digital. I use computer aided technology to inform my humble introduction into woodworking.
I’m currently very interested in the budding additive manufacturing industry and how it will transform the “dead” crafts. If not just used to expedite my own practice, the precision it allows has been able to free my mind up to the creative possibilities, instead of getting up on my own clumsy ability. I believe this new technology isn’t going to replace the crafts, but instead allow single individuals to keep making, even if they aren’t physically present doing it.
My current body of work are functional turnings that use 3D printed cores to hold captive fasteners. This essentially allows me (in what little free time I have) to create knobs, handles or any other mechanically screwed-on “thing” by just drilling a hole and popping in the core with some adhesive. I then can run free in the form work and finishing process that the real satisfaction lies in.