Craft
Inside the Forming Process
Pressure, heat and time — the three variables that decide whether a form survives.
Forming is the least photogenic and most consequential stage in the studio. It happens in the dark, under pressure, and it cannot be corrected afterwards.
Once cloth and resin meet the tool, the object enters a closed cycle: vacuum draws the plies down, heat begins the cure, and pressure removes what air remains between layers. From that point the geometry is committed.
We run longer, cooler cycles than production economics would suggest. A slower cure reduces internal stress, which is what keeps an edge straight three years later in a room that swings twenty degrees between seasons.
Patience is a structural property.
