SHELL . MAKING

FIRST ATTEMPT - TRIAL

This is my first attempt at bashing aluminium, trying to explore the surface of the shell and test out different ways of bending the aluminium by bashing it against different surfaces. The most difficult thing that I have realised via this attempt was the complexity and subtlety of this organic shape. None of curves on the surface only falls in one way.  Often when I curve the aluminium in one direction and then try to stretch it in the other direction, the shape ended up working against each other. It was very hard to achieve a level of accuracy of with such a big working surface. Hence, as Russell suggested that I should do little pieces of just a part of the reference model and do it to a lot of detail. Note how the aluminium was stretched out too far and broke at the middle due to over-bashing.