Raymond Chow

Reverberation in the Skin of a Fluid
This work investigates the generative forces of form by observing the relationship between the nature of materials and external forces.

The investigation began with a string attached to a spinning motor.The action of spinning a string revealed a wave: a balanced relationship between the resistances of the mass of string and the forces generated by the spinning motor and gravity. Recording the phenomena through a strobe light (a pulsing source of light), photography and video, documented and revealed the emerging patterns of behaviour inherently present, but hidden from the naked eye.

The string was substituted for a strip of fabric soaked in a plaster compound to contain and arrest its resisting form to the gravitational and centrifugal force through the setting and strength properties of the plaster. The fabricated form was multiplied to make a mass of the "rib-bone" like structures. As a further force, the community of rib components rests upon a member made of bamboo under tension.