Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Epoxy Resin Drop as Art - and Rheology Puzzler





Materialist said...

The blog description does say "tiny drip." This could also be interpreted as "mini drizzle" and thus a sort of vertical extruder - I would guess the uncured epoxy used is lower-than-average viscosity.

John said...

I'm guessing that the material cures at a slow speed so that the artist has a long working time. I could be wrong, and a fast curing epoxy would have a stonger exotherm, internal heat build up,... all conditions that would make it easier to explain the drop.

I may have to break down and contact the artist directly. If I hear anything back, I will certainly inform you.

Momoko Sudo said...

John, I just emailed you a brief "answer" to your question. I will post the complete response here tomorrow when I have time to do so.

Momoko Sudo said...

Basically there are no wrinkles on the drip, thus you people are correct in a sense that epoxy does not cause such wrinkles in the process of dripping as being cured. And you were wrong in that there were wrinkles on the drip. You people were totally deceived by the optical illusion of the stripes! The drip is entirely smooth and flat.

The actual drop was probably 1 inch or so in size. The epoxy resin with different colors of pigments were dripped from about 4 or 4 inches in height and kept dripping in a thread-like fashion.

This is the type of work that produced drops.


Momoko Sudo said...

The drop was about 1 inch wide and about 1.5 mm thick.

This is the type of work that produced drops

epfloors said...

I might speculate the particular uncured epoxy utilized will be lower-than-average viscosity.