I took my material, which is petroleum jelly, and put it in a caulking gun and attatched that to a 3D printer. I created a simple design in Tinkercad, exported it into Ultimaker Cura 4.4 and put the design in the printer. I manually distributed the material and let the 3D printer guide me in the motions I made.
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Earlier Prototype
What did I do and what does it mean?
What is it about?
It could be about the duration and/or fragility of a message. The material itself is thick and sticky, but it is very vulnerable to its environment. Especially to heat and touch (it typically melts between 40 and 70 °C). It could become a temporary message after it has been exposed to a certain amount of heat and has melted.

The material itself is a medicine, something soft but strong and resistant. It feels therapeutic, protecting and healing.
What ideas or questions do my findings produce?
How will I transport this successfully? Will this connect with others? Is this doable for others? Could I communicate healing or protectance/ safety?
What is it going to become?
It could become a tool, method, or medium to communicate temporary messages. Preferably something poetic. To perhaps be used by others as an alternative kind of ink. (Maybe I could create a new kind of pen?)
Earlier Prototype
What did I do and what does it mean?
What is it about?
What is it going to become?
What ideas or questions do my findings produce?
I tried to create bioplastic with different recipes, including vaseline. It honestly hasn’t worked out that well yet but I think it would be super cool to create a new kind of material based on vaseline.
I am creating a new material that is sort of skin-like. It could be post-human and intimate.
How could I make this environmentally friendly? What do I want the user to experience?
A new material, others could use it as an alternative to plastic. For packaging or perhaps fashion.
What did I do and what does it mean?
What is it about?
I created a mixture of petroleum jelly and incense. In the process of creating this mixture, I focused on its healing properties and therapeutic/ protective values.
The material itself is about the body, touch, intimacy, fragility, and re-thinking design (and the appliance of design).

The instruction (ritual) is about healing. It's an act of bonding and protecting. Focussing on positive reminders. Creating loving and kind relationships. A reminder to be kind to others, and to yourself.
Who is it for?
It allows graphic designers to explore the body as a canvas. To design on the body in a temporary, poetic manner.

Yet the ritual is accessible for everyone, mainly focussing on duo's (partners, friends, family).
What did it teach me?
This material taught me to be patient and showed me the potential of simple things. It made me aware of ethics, and to design inclusively.

It taught me to be specific, to know who I am designing for. And to try out new things, to go beyond design on paper. But to design on 'life'.
Final Prototype (dark incense)
Final Prototype (light insence)