Hide & Seek piece: Working with thermochomic inks
Hide and Seek is a brooch made of a cover of A5 paper and a brooch pin made of steel and brass. The green cover has Greek text screen-printed onto the paper using black thermochromic ink. Parts of the text are visible and parts of the text are concealed by the folds around the brooch pin. If the temperature raises over 31°C, the ink becomes transparent and the text disappears temporarily. This is possible because the ink reacts to changes in temperature.
This project was part of my initial explorations for my doctoral research where I was looking at ways that objects could respond actively to my location. I imagined that in Greece, where the temperature often exceeds 31°C during the summer period, the text would disappear, and when I was travelling back to the UK, the text would appear again as the temperature would descrease significantly.
