Tejas Patel
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The bench

Material studies

Ten things made in timber, steel, plaster, clay, foam, leather, paper and fibreglass.

my part
Maker
when
2018 to 2021
context
Nirma University and personal
on the bench
3 entries in the dated log
updated
A hand-made three-dimensional tessellation in timber with mild steel plates between the pieces.
A small wooden box with finger joints at its corners, on a timber bench.
Things I’d made by hand, on one bench,

Things I made while I was a student at Nirma, photographed between 2018 and 2021. Five of them were photographed in one session on a Nikon D5600 on 23 October 2021. The PoP mould and the clay sphere were photographed on 14 November 2018, and the lamp on 5 July 2020.

Timber and steel

A hand-made three-dimensional tessellation in timber with mild steel plates between the pieces.
A 3D tessellation in wood, with mild-steel plates going in between the pieces. Hand made to a precision of up to 0.5 mm, by my own account.
A carved wooden block with three bone-shaped wooden pieces set into it, each marked with a sun, a red sun or a moon and stars.
A simple product carved out of wood, with moving parts. The small pieces are marked with a sun and a moon.
A wooden box with hand-chiselled finger joints.
A wooden box that demonstrates hand-chiselled finger joinery.
A wooden hanger with a thin curved arm, hung from a wire and holding a maroon T-shirt.
A flexible wood hanger with a detachable wing. It bends with the weight of the clothes hung on it.

Leather, bamboo and fibreglass

A cigar holder in buffalo leather and bamboo: a block with three drilled holes bound with cord, and a stitched leather sleeve below it, on a timber bench.
A cigar holder in buffalo leather and bamboo.
A mushroom-shaped lamp of fibreglass mesh and epoxy resin, glowing amber from inside in a dark room.
A lamp made in the FRP workshop with fibreglass mesh and epoxy resin, lit from inside.
A person sitting cross-legged on the floor at home, pulling yellow fabric around a cardboard tube, with a tin and a plastic tub beside them.
Making a composite at home, 28 March 2021. I have worked with FRP moulding and carbon fibre.

Plaster, clay, foam and paper

Two plaster pieces side by side on a pale backdrop, each carrying a tessellating pattern of hexagons and stars in low relief.
A PoP mould for making tessellating tiles, with a tile beside it. Stars and hexagons.
A faceted form with flat angled planes, cut from thermocol, standing on a wooden bench.
A polyhedron cut out of thermocol, an exploration of forms for lo-fi models.
A hollow sphere in red Morbi clay.
A hollow sphere in red clay from Morbi. It rings when you strike it with a stick.
A white papier-mâché form on a wooden bench: a rounded body with a curling tail, standing on a low pillow-shaped base.
A papier-mâché model for form explorations.

On the bench

3 entries in the dated log

  1. Things I’d made by hand, on one benchNikon D5600, one afternoon
  2. A lamp in fibreglass and epoxyFRP: fibreglass mesh, epoxy resin
  3. Plaster and clay, the same dayPlaster of Paris; red clay from Morbi
The whole log, newest first
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