Orange Peel Project

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Orange Peelings…

I’ve been playing with this project for some years now, whenever I eat an orange or satsuma….

I like that the peeling of these fruit provides a net which can be reconstructed to make a round form. The shape of this net can vary infinitely, but the common to any shape you make, out of these infinite possibilities, is the actual surface area of the net.

I find a quiet satisfaction in the transformation from flat to round.. there is a completeness in these forms that can curl up into a perfect sphere.

Initially I explored the variations in the basic ‘S’ form that unravels when you peel in an uncomplicated single line from one pole to the other. There’s an undetectable point at the equator where even though you continue to peel in the same direction the curve reverses and the resulting shape turns into an S. Peeling the line as thinly as possible produces a most elegant, long S, while a faster thicker approach to the peeling makes for a chubby form that begins to lose definition as it crazes from the sides when you try to make it flat.

It takes concentrated effort to make an entirely new shape as the rush to get to the fruit can override the experimental process, but from S shapes I moved to more abstract forms until finally the process has become less random, more planned, and  here are the results.

I hope you enjoy them!

 

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