Quartz Mirror

Quartz crystal silver mirrors

Quartz crystal plays an essential role in a long list of media devices. Radio, record player, television, telephone, computer among many others all rely on the mechanical property of quartz crystals in the shape of crystal oscillators. With the effect that translates electricity into oscillation and back, it enables us to see ourselves through the objects we create. Quartz Mirror mimics the familiar form of a mirror, using sliced, polished and silvered pieces of quartz, the unfamiliar yet prevalent basis for ways to duplicate and distribute images. It's a reflection through a technological myth, suspended between two mirrors.

Study O Portable, founded by Bernadette Deddens [NL] and Tetsuo Mukai [JP], is a research based practice that makes objects about the designed environment, and our relationship to the cultural landscape that enables it, with a particular interest in the transitional nature of our ideas towards objects. The work often catalogues various, and sometimes disparate notions associated with certain ideas and objects, and proposes other potential for the mundane and ordinary. The practice maintains a speculative approach to the definition of designing, and is intrigued by different modes of thinking related to things and objects in general.

Since 2009, the work of Study O Portable has been presented internationally at various occasions and places such as Design Miami (Miami Beach, Basel), London Design Festival (London), Design Parade (Hyeres), Gallery FUMI (London, Porto Cervo), Caroline van Hoek (Brussels, Knokke), Phillips de Pury & Company (London, New York), Dutch Design Week (Eindhoven), Pavilion of Art and Design (Paris, London) among others.

As Workshop For Potential Design, they initiate and organise exhibitions related to designed conditions.

(Source: http://www.studyoportable.com/about/)

• http://studyoportable.com/projects/Quart...
• http://www.trendtablet.com/11494-atmosph...
• http://www.carolinevanhoek.be/artists/#/...