• Study O Portable Quartz Mirror: Quartz crystal plays an essential role in a long list of media devices. Radio, record player, television, telephone, computer among many others all rely on the mechanical property of quartz crystals in the shape of crystal oscillators. With the effect that translates electricity into oscillation and back, it enables us to see ourselves through the objects we create. Quartz Mirror mimics the familiar form of mirror, using sliced, polished and silvered pieces of quartz, the unfamiliar yet prevalent basis for ways to duplicate and distribute images. It's a reflection through a technological myth, suspended between two mirrors.
    Study O Portable Quartz Mirror: Quartz crystal plays an essential role in a long list of media devices. Radio, record player, television, telephone, computer among many others all rely on the mechanical property of quartz crystals in the shape of crystal oscillators. With the effect that translates electricity into oscillation and back, it enables us to see ourselves through the objects we create. Quartz Mirror mimics the familiar form of mirror, using sliced, polished and silvered pieces of quartz, the unfamiliar yet prevalent basis for ways to duplicate and distribute images. It's a reflection through a technological myth, suspended between two mirrors.
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    Peter Marigold Wooden Forms:      A series of vessels created using a single small piece of wood as a mould. The piece of wood is pasted with hot wax creating an impression of the wood. The wood is then moved to a new position and pasted with hot wax again, blending it with the previous piece. This is repeated so as to build up the form intuitively, creating an object that is both moulded, yet unique. The wax form is then cast into either plaster or metal blending it into one singular material through one singular action. The resulting form becoming an amalgam of moments. The forms are 'wooden' in that they have been created using wood rather than being made of wood. They therefore reference wood as an active verb rather than a monumental noun; the resulting forms highly animated and not 'wooden' at all.
    Peter Marigold Wooden Forms: A series of vessels created using a single small piece of wood as a mould. The piece of wood is pasted with hot wax creating an impression of the wood. The wood is then moved to a new position and pasted with hot wax again, blending it with the previous piece. This is repeated so as to build up the form intuitively, creating an object that is both moulded, yet unique. The wax form is then cast into either plaster or metal blending it into one singular material through one singular action. The resulting form becoming an amalgam of moments. The forms are 'wooden' in that they have been created using wood rather than being made of wood. They therefore reference wood as an active verb rather than a monumental noun; the resulting forms highly animated and not 'wooden' at all.
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    Liliana Ovalle Colour Me Red, Colour Me Green:      Colour can change the nature of an object as soon as the brush touches it. An immediate transformation takes place: different elements are unified into one and a new space is confined within the borders of the coloured surface. The project explores the use of colour as means to bring a new significance to an object. A superficial layer draws a new shape within an assembly of wooden volumes and boards, broadening the perception of the whole. Colour opens a space for ambiguity and interpretation.
    Liliana Ovalle Colour Me Red, Colour Me Green: Colour can change the nature of an object as soon as the brush touches it. An immediate transformation takes place: different elements are unified into one and a new space is confined within the borders of the coloured surface. The project explores the use of colour as means to bring a new significance to an object. A superficial layer draws a new shape within an assembly of wooden volumes and boards, broadening the perception of the whole. Colour opens a space for ambiguity and interpretation.
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    Methods of imitation


    In this exhibition curated by Study O portable, the idea of imitation is explored through several projects created especially for the London Design week. The main intention was to consider the works on show as speculative reviews of objects both significant and mundane that propose new narratives for the old and familiar. Being a part of the London Design Festival places the exhibition within a bigger context of contemporary design and the object culture that surrounds us.

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