>Polylith boxset, 2021. Part of the Metalithic series. 
1 copper 3D print 65x25x40mm,1 bronze 3D print 80x30x50mm, 1 USB memory stick containing .STL file and a HD digital film. 
Packaged inside a cardboard box with magnetic lid 150x130x80mm. Edition of 5

These objects are 3d printed in a blend of 80% metal and 20% corn starch ensuring that they oxidize like traditional metals and take on a lush patina. 
They have been produced to hold, to rub so that the lustre continues to change with handling.  
During the pandemic, the Archaeologist Dr. Paul Reilly discovered a hoard of Mesolithic flint artefacts in Southern England and this box set is an outcome of a collaboration between Dawson and Reilly. Dawson scanned and 3D printed a ten-thousand-year-old flint axe once used to mine chalk. 
The viewer will doubletake with these objects holding something which looks naturally formed, but one which combines technologies separated by 10,000 years. 
Each object has been reprinted at different scales, accentuating the magical qualities of these objects. 
Dawson also likes to think of them as apotropaic objects. Copper is well known for its antimicrobial properties, so he imagines that by handling these objects one might be warding off evil spirits.
Each box set includes a USB memory stick which has the 3D digital files, so that the objects can be reprinted. The USB also includes a HD digital film Polylith 2021 which  can be viewed on any screen device. This film depicts both the inside and outside of the original axe simultaneously as a virtual camera loops around the digital scans.

   >Ian Dawson

>Polylith boxset, 2021. Part of the Metalithic series. 

1 copper 3D print 65x25x40mm,1 bronze 3D print 80x30x50mm, 1 USB memory stick containing .STL file and a HD digital film. 
Packaged inside a cardboard box with magnetic lid 150x130x80mm  Edition of 5