De Wain Valentine: Polyester Reçine

he was a real innovator willing to take risks with a new material most of these resins were designed to be poured in very thin layers this is white wine had to develop his own resin in terms of the chemistry he did he was quite an artist as well it's useful to know what the words mean so what does it mean to be unsaturated what is an ester and what's a polyester this is the set of molecules the artist these are examples of ester linkages if you put many of them they have the potential to link to other molecules that's what the term is unsaturated the first two we have molecules that are small and it's lethal life and at the moment that you want to create the solvent you can add a catalyst and it steals one of them so all of a sudden it puts them in kind of excited unstable state so they attack their neighborhood and they're stuck together that one now is on heaven or soy detects the next and then the neighbor says I'm gonna steal one from my neighbor and boom boom boom it runs through the whole system and connects it all together stitching together the material causing them not only to become longer but also to link with each other it's very highly cross-linked material and gives you the strong clear resume there was a gentleman he called ed Hervey he got Pittsburgh plate glass residents division working with me to formulate with the rs500 192 know doing is look like a craftsman very facile very professional very deliberative don't give up he was one of those people who would rapidly try new materials as they become available and then not be limited by them the fact that any of them came out as well as they did was something of a miracle if a little tiny piece of dirt or something fell in it was with the first large piece I tried to pour it went wacky and started to crack that there was a strong panic mode hoping is gonna blow open it wasn't just about using new materials that a lot of these artists were doing it was really about you know creating something that wasn't there so this intersection between you know technique and science and art it just seems to be encapsulated by this particular piece in this particular artist you