art installation: ceramic propeller destruction

There was an open house at Globe Studios around the corner from where we live. We were entranced by the ceramic art made by Isabel Ochoa and James Clarke-Hicks and Isabel very kindly spent quite a while showing us how the clay 3-D printer works.



I was hanging out in the space for Trevor Waurechen (who has really cool LED neon-esque works) and playing with "Snap Circuit" electronics with Trevor's 8-year-old, who has a great mad-scientist flair that I appreciate.

Somehow, between the three of us, we came up with 3-D printing propeller blades that were light enough to fly off the motor they were sitting on, which would be helpful if they were made with regular plastic, but really cool if they were printed as light-weight ceramic, as a single-use artistic installation. They fly up... and then down with a *smash*. We wanted to see it making a political statement, perhaps relating to drone warfare.

If you do something like this, please let me know :)