Buoyancy
Testing shapes and materials that float. The paper needs treatment of wax or ink to stiffen the form, but also, the form needs to encourage an air bubble to stay afloat.
A concave-up sheet coated in wax floated, as did a concave-down, ink-painted casting of a ovular box. The oval cast is similar to how I make the body forms… empty on the bottom, so the shape floats on its sides using an air bubble. It would have floated for a while, and down river if I hadn’t caught it in time.
