About three years ago I was in an experimental organic architecture studio, where what we ended up creating were less like buildings and more like art pieces. It was fairly complicated, but basically I extrapolated dimensions from Georgia O'Keefe's "Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. V" painting and for part of the project, I laser cut A LOT OF CIRCLES based on the relationships between those measurements, with the largest circles about 3 inches in diameter. Yeah, it was weird. I used some of the circles, but ended up with a ton of extras. Most were laser cut from cheap 2-ply chipboard.
There were also a ton of circles laser cut out of 1/16-inch basswood sheets. And even more cut out of 2-ply white matboard. Um ... I think I got a little crazy with the laser cutter, but it's an awesome piece of machinery! At my graduate school, students aren't allowed to operate the laser cutter themselves, but back at my undergraduate school, it was free reign (after paying and scheduling the time, of course)! Sigh ... I miss the smell of burnt chipboard/basswood/matboard.
I didn't use any of the matboard because the charring was too severe so the circles didn't turn out as nice and white as I was hoping, but oh well. Good times. Good memories. One of these days I'll have to post the completed projects, which I was pretty proud of. But after three years, I think I can let go of the 200+ circles. Off to the trash they go!
