Hand Cast Resin Screen

Made up of 94 hand cast epoxy nuclear resin bricks, each individually colored with UV stabalized pigments.

Figuring out how to cast these bricks with internal channels was a bit of a puzzle at first. The resin I chose to use, optically clear, non-yellowing epoxy resin tends to chemically bond to any surface it contacts. Except (I discovered), Delrin. Delrin is a member of a group called low energy plastics. It includes Teflon and polypropylene. Neither epoxy nor cyanoacrylate (crazy) glue will stick to them directly. This was the discovery that enabled me to finally be able to cast these bricks with internal channels. The bond was mechanical and I could hammer out the internal Delrin rods after the resin bricks were cast in the Delrin molds. The bricks where then sanded and buffed up to 1000 grit to be optically clear. However, I decided I preferred them when they had a softer finish and diffused the light passing through them as opposed to the light passing directly through like glass. So, I began the process of sanding them back down to 800 grit.

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