Andrew S. Harmon

This bubble display uses glycerine and air to produce pattens and text.  This version is 8 pixels wide.  The concept can be scaled up in a modular fashion to enable large installations (ie an entire wall in a restaurant or bar, or a free standing divider in a lobby or office).  Control is implemented using an arduino micro controller board. Future additions will include a streaming interface (to upload text and commands on the fly), and a more refined modular design.  This prototype is on display at Momentum Tulsa 2010.

While unpacking some boxes I found some of my old glass work from around 2002.  I decided I should take some pictures. Here they are.

Silver Ampersand necklace with inlayed stone that I made.

Process:

1. Cut ampersand out of 1 mm silver sheet (save the pieces that compose the negative space)
2.  Solder rectangle and tiny negative space pieces to another 1 mm silver sheet.  (The surface tension of the solder wants to pull all of the pieces together which makes things difficult)
3.  Solder sheet to another 1 mm sheet.  
4.  Cut, file and sand to exact rectangular shape
5.  File top with round file for tube to lay in.
6.  Solder tube in groove on top.
7.  Crush stones
8.  Apply  glue and place stone fragments in one at a time like a puzzle.
9.  Wait 12 hours for glue to dry
10.  Sand stones to level of metal, go back and fill holes
11.  Sand and polish
12.  Mask stones with tape
13.  Sandblast then remove tape.

Oh, and there a lot of intermediate steps (like pickling for 10 min after every soldering). But I managed to do it all this week (about 12 hours). 

During the waiting parts I made a married metal button as a practice piece before I move on to silver.

I made this for the 2007 TAC 5×5 art benefit.