Milk Plastic Pen Barrel, 2017. Synthesized at home from reconstituted dry skim milk, vinegar, and rubbing alcohol. From a 1906 recipe demonstrated on YouTube by British chemist Robert Murray Smith.
Slow Plastic Desk Set, 2017. Synthesized from reconstituted dry skim milk, vinegar, and rubbing alcohol.
Attendees of the College Art Association Annual Conference 2017 Performing Materials panel discussion — at which I presented on this work — tried out the milk plastic pens (image above, and two below)
