Our colleague Elin Figueiredo Lisbon is the study of ancient metals. Recently PhD and now works as part of a major project funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology of Portugal, called Primitive Metallurgy Portuguese territory.
Elin often works with photomicrographs of prehistoric metals. These images show a structure not only increases ax. These images show keeps the secret of how the artisans make those devices for 4,000 or 3,000 years. This activity and dynamism of a metallurgical process "frozen" in fixed images, gestures craftsman reveals its secrets .... Counted if an object obtained by casting no more and sometimes even shows if the casting was cooled quickly or slowly. Count if after melting, decided to bring the metal to a cold hammered work,
perhaps to harden an edge or form a design. They furthermore when reheated in the process, perhaps to avoid breaking and then followed by forging and heating sequence. They sometimes on selected alloys, their mixture on the alchemy of transmutation of substances. They sometimes on the mistakes made on how the corrosion began attacking those metals
and managed to vary their appearance. Count and count ... processes and secrets ... and beyond the physical-chemistry, Archaeometry shows his most anthropological, more human.
Elin One day he taught his friend, the designer Alexandra Moura, the micrographs of the crystal structures of metal
prehistoric, who stunned by the strange forms microscopic decided create your clothing collection for summer 2011 , stamping the micrographs in their tissues. Alexandra describes her collection:
Colecção tem This theme / Conceit "MICROlhar" . Fala-year gives us observação optical microscope metal artifacts thousands of years, showing us images of microstructures with corrosion breathtaking, transporting our imagination to small (grandes!) worlds that seem to exist on these surfaces of microscopic size. Contemplation of these microstructure of metals prehistoric makes us to move past worlds, forgotten lives, ancient knowledge ... Other planets, other beings ... Beings that inhabit our subconscious and it becomes more life ... And so, suddenly, as if by action of a time machine to transport us to the 60 century. XX through their patterns and silhouettes, and then maybe make us jump directly for a future he also quite distant. The creation of new textures and new images by current technologies, make the tone of this collection. Señal
that "The images used for printing are by Elin Figueiredo, researcher in the area of \u200b\u200bancient metals (archaeometalurgical) in ITN and CENIMAT/I3N, and were made in CENIMAT/I3N, FCT-UNL.
(ITN - Nuclear and Technological Institute, Estrada Nacional 10, 2686-953 Sacavem).
(CENIMAT/I3N, FCT-UNL - Center for Materials Research / Institute of Nanostructures, Nanofabrication and Nanomodelling, Faculty of Science and Technology, New University of Lisbon, 2829-516 Caparica) "
that "The images used for printing are by Elin Figueiredo, researcher in the area of \u200b\u200bancient metals (archaeometalurgical) in ITN and CENIMAT/I3N, and were made in CENIMAT/I3N, FCT-UNL.
(ITN - Nuclear and Technological Institute, Estrada Nacional 10, 2686-953 Sacavem).
(CENIMAT/I3N, FCT-UNL - Center for Materials Research / Institute of Nanostructures, Nanofabrication and Nanomodelling, Faculty of Science and Technology, New University of Lisbon, 2829-516 Caparica) "
The collection is cited in CENIMAT page.
A fascinating past recycling. A fascinating perspective of MICROlhar. Above all I call attention to the language that a fashion designer captures our attention on the anthropological significance of the micrographs, using an everyday language, suggestive and passionate ... in anything like the arqueometalurgia books.
