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Ian Lambert Design
Isle of Harris Fish Slice 2017- 2019
This process arose from a visit to the small island of Scarp, just off Harris, in the Outer Hebrides. The last permanent residents left in 1971, but historically this treeless island had had a reliable source of timber provided by the sea as driftwood. Today, by far the most abundant material washed ashore is plastic. There are estimates of 8m - 12m tons of plastic deposited in the sea annually. This is an off-grid injection moulding process that utilises washed-up polypropylene (rope) melted over a fire to make a utility object (fish-slice) bearing the name of the location where the plastic has been retrieved. This utility souvenir highlights the distribution of a hugely abundant waste material in the world’s oceans as in parallel with sea-faring trade routes.
An industrial material and industrial process are adapted as crafted design. The making of the injection moulding tool utilised digital technologies available to all.
Ian Lambert Design
