Through practice-based experimentation, material befriending and hands-on testing, this project developed its own material by cooking, pigment colouring and casting flat bioplastic sheets. The work pursues precision and artificiality — sleek, vibrant surfaces with an almost synthetic confidence, challenging the naturalistic aesthetics typically associated with biobased materials.
The material's inherent characteristics — its fragility, dependency, and tendency to warp, shrink, and resist standardisation — are not treated as limitations but as conceptual framework. Through print design and abstraction, the material behaviour becomes a lens for examining human behaviour, nostalgia and memory. Both resist full control. Both negotiate between form and dissolution.
The resulting objects — a bioplastic dice, an upscaled hand-painted View-Master installation, and a two-layered mobile — ask whether contemporary design can accommodate materials that are temporal and unreliable — and whether something can be precious precisely because it was never meant to last.
Contact
Email: rikkestrange@live.dk
Instagram: @rikkii_rambo
