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STUDIO: 09.DEC.2025I'm not quite sure where it fits into the larger schema of the final exhibition. However, the idea is to build an animated font. The letters are made from wax, and I’ll record them melting. Once I have the individual letter assets, I can use them as a sort of digital typesetting. The compositions can be arranged into texts which will melt when read.

The first stage was laser cutting the stencils and using them to create the wax lettering. Some interesting difficulties included bleeding beneath the stencils. I don’t mind it, although I’d prefer sharper. Always working with paper is tricky. The temperature of the wax and the paper matter significantly, and the margin of ideal conditions to achieve a sharp, non-greasy application of the wax is slight.

The next stage is to rig up a shoot whereby I can film the letters while heating them from behind. Again, small margin for error, and I want to wax not to melt too quickly or to run entirely off the page. 
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