Smearing Marbles

For the next project, we were asked, this time, to have your machine make a mark rather than a sound. Brooke and I worked in tandem on this project. After getting together and hashing out some ideal, we decided that it was time for a Home Depot run. There we bought a poster-sized piece of sheet metal. It was smooth and flexible which made it a perfect solution to our preliminary plans.

We eventually ended up with a machine that dropped marbles onto a small table (using the same device from the last project). We directed the marbles toward the edge, where they fell off onto the sheet metal, which we bent into the shape of a half-pipe. Before releasing the marbles we doused the sheet metal with acrylic paint. When the marbles fell onto it, they rolled off of it smearing the paint leaving an interesting generative mark on the metal.