I found this to be very interesting because I never really thought people would want to use someones used and chewed gum to create a sculpture of them. It also interested me because the creator of the sculptures was using pretty much anything that people had left their spit on to create an exact 3D sculpture of their face.
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Spit out your gum and become a sculpture
Ever wounder what happens to that piece of gum you spit out on the sidewalk or that used tissue you threw away well wounder no more. Heather Dewey Hagborg , Ph.D. candidate in Electro Arts at Resselaes Polytechnic Institute, who is living in New York is putting all of those used tissues and chewed pieces gum to good use. Hagborg uses the chewed gum to retrieve DNA, by genetic analysis, from the person who chewed it and uses 3D printing techniques to creates a 3D facial sculpture of that person without ever having to meet that person in person. Hagborg gets most of her art materials from public sidewalks, subways, and public bathrooms in New York. She mostly uses items people have left saliva or DNA on like gum, cigarette butts, used tissues, and what ever else she can find. With all the items she finds she creates a exhibit of anonymous strangers. Hagborg does not create an exact copy of the persons face, but she creates more of a resemblance of the person.
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This is very interesting, also it's a tad scary to think that one can potentially be identified just by one's own chewed gum. This artist's technique could be useful in tracking down people who ruin benches, desks, tables, etc with there disgusting used gum.
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