SOF (the sound of fog)

The medium was corten tubes — dense, inert, industrial, and built to endure the elements. Our challenge was to transform 12,000 pounds of weight into something atmospheric, scattering light like fog. Each tube required incisions to capture and release light, but the angles were too extreme for a tube laser to follow — even with four axes. To keep the fog continuous — to preserve the abstraction of pixellated fog rendered in steel — we devised a hybrid method: laser-cut where possible, then hand-ground the cuts, carrying the negative figure–ground void seamlessly across hundreds of transitions.