Tiger Statue - Holocene Extinction memorial
Tiger Statue - Holocene Extinction memorial
3D
Published 2020-06-04T09:05:08+00:00
Holocene extinction memorial designed for Edinburgh Zoo to bring attention to the issue of deforestation and mass extinction of animals caused by humans. It unfortunately never got made in full scale due to some unforeseen circumstances but it still does for a nice tabletop statue when scaled down with important message behind it serving not only as a piece of art but as a conversation piece. The idea behind it was fairly simple. Tiger was meant to be made from blocks of wood that would be sourced from a sustainable source of wood like a balsa showing how unnecessary deforestation. Missing pieces of tiger represent how we are destroying the natural habitat of many species with every field and every mine.
On the base, some of the fields would be planted with grass and some would show pattern inspired by fields you can see from planes left after surface mining and unsustainable ways that crops are grown where there were forests.
If you would like to know more about the project itself it should be on my Behance page or feel free to send me a message. To be honest I was never much of an eco-warrior but seeing what we are doing to this planet makes me want to change things which is why I used filament that is made from recycled plastic and wood offcuts.
I printed base at 0.3mm layer height with 0.6mm nozzle with minimal infill just like 10 per cent or so. If you can use variable infill and it will save you a fair amount of material. I think that tiger itself is best to be printed sideways in multiple pieces with high layer height I think I printed it with 0.6mm nozzle and 0.4mm layer height and sanded it afterwards making it look like wood grain thanks to those fat layers and had people thinking it is carved from wood it so I would recommend that.
| Date published | 04/06/2020 |
| Material Quantity | 180g |
| Dimensions | 202mm x 202mm x 175mm |