The mastery of art connected with Diamut on display in New York

In his 25-year career in the glass and stone sector, Kerry Clark had never been asked to find a tooling solution for creating items for an art exhibition. Then, one day, Clark - Brand Sales Manager for the Glass Division of Diamut America - got a call from Miles Driscoll, Design Engineering Manager at Precision Stone in Long Island, New York. Driscoll had been chosen to collaborate with renowned architect and M.I.T. teacher Cristina Parren᷉o in fabricating two artifacts for her upcoming exhibition at Art Omi in Ghent, N.Y. The exhibition - TransTectonics in Construction - will display a series of four items challenging the conventional combinations of materials thanks to an unorthodox mix of processes and tectonics.

Parreño's vision for her Ghost of Stone prototype involves the use of a strong carving technique generally associated with the tectonics of stone-walling, but applied here to glass. Driscoll was also going to carve the rock for a piece shaped like Ghost of Stone (which Parreño entitled "Rock in Full Metal Jacket"), in which the machined rock would be joined with cast aluminium. Parren᷉o produced two other prototypes for the exhibition: PlyGlass - a provocation where the technique of lamination typically associated with plywood is applied to glass, creating transparent strength through redundancy, and Wooden Bubble - created by blowing glass into a wooden mould and thereby burning the wood. "Even though an art exhibition isn't one of our typical projects, we deal with new applications all the time for our customers that manage labs, offering a range of possibilities for creating the required complexity".