Response PatternCollaboration with Anette Millington
Ongoing
Response Patterns investigates the design of environmentally responsive textiles for interior and exterior applications. With the support of
the Center for Craft’s 2020 Materials-Based Research Grant, the project began
researching different material embellishment methods, including silk
screening with photochromic pigment and 3D printed embellishment.
This pattern and material research has culminated in a large-scale installation exhibited at the Center for Craft in the summer of 2023.
The structure utilizes a tetrahedron-based modular unit designed to grow in a variety of directions. This reconfigurable, space frame-like
structure supports a set of three unique triangular “sails”. Each sail is printed with three layers of UV sensitive ink, according to a computationally arrayed dot pattern. The series production has included the
precise mixing of photochromic ink to scale, design and production of
9 screens, and individual hand screening of 60 triangles.