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Saturday, August 8, 2009

Koru- in praise of Shrinky Dinks

"Koru Pendant"
shrink plastic, stamped image, pigment chalk

that's right, you read correctly. Nothing is more fun than shrink plastic. You stamp a big image on it, rub on some pale powder (it'll get darker as it shrinks), cut it out, and then heat it with a heat gun. Giggling insanely as it shrink to a quarter of it's size is optional. This is something i made to test out the process, a green spiral like the Koru (a Maori symbol for the unfurling fern, or birth and discovery)

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