People have been using clay to make objects and shelters since time immemorial; but could it also be a key material of the future? San Francisco‐based xyqmake‐tank’ Emerging Objects has been experimenting with the use of clay in 3D printing, with sophisticated codes producing woven and textured forms and mixing different clays together. The studio's cofounders Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello here present these projects, as well as offering a potted history of clay's use and nature. Given its re‐resistance and thermal qualities, the benefits of eventually applying such techniques on an architectural scale are clear.
Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello have created snow globes depicting eight fanciful uses for the border wall between the United States and Mexico. They call their snow globes recuerdos, Spanish for souvenirs, a term that defines both the trinkets one might purchase at tourist shops and memories. These recuerdos are tragic, sublime, and absurd, occasionally hyperbolized, but in all cases are based on their creators’ own experiences and actual events in the liminal space that defines the boundary between the United States and Mexico.
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