SOBOOF · LEEUWARDEN, NL

Think in
triangles. Bring in the light. Reach meaning through forms.

These figures are reflections of ourselves and our surroundings. Hand-cut mirrored tiles are mounted on modular 3D-printed bodies using the centuries-old Ayeneh-Kari technique — each face captures a triangular fragment of reality, shifting with the viewer's point of view.

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02 · Working method

Three chapters

Every Mirbreak sculpture moves through the same three stages: drawn as geometry, printed as a body, then tiled by hand until it reflects.

CH · I · 3D DESIGN A sculpture grown module by module in the Pythagoras Engine builder

CHAPTER · 01

Explore in Pythagoras Engine

The builder grows the sculpture from modules: here you can explore the endless possibilities of forming objects within geometrical constraints. Also in the factory you can make practical modules to divide your structure into smaller printable parts (pins), or make a cable pass tunnel, and etc.

CH · II · PRINTING Printed polyhedral modules ready to be joined into the sculpture

CHAPTER · 02

3D Printing

The geometry leaves the screen and becomes a body you can hold.

The assembled geometry is exported and printed part by part, then joined to form the intended structure.

CH · III · MIRROR Hand-cut mirrored tiles applied with the Ayeneh-Kari technique

CHAPTER · 03

Tiled by hand in cut mirror.

Ayeneh-Kari: a centuries-old craft, laid over a printed geometry.

Each face is then tiled with hand-cut mirrored glass using the centuries-old Persian Ayeneh-Kari technique. It is the slowest chapter and the only one done entirely by hand.

Once tiled, the object stops being a surface and starts being a window: every facet catches a triangular fragment of the room and shifts with the viewer's point of view. The sculpture is finished when it reflects: a living system shaped by light, space, and perception.

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Commissions, gallery enquiries, press, and workshop bookings. If the brief is honest and the geometry is interesting, you'll hear back within a week.

Email mirbreak@soboof.com Instagram @soboof LinkedIn /in/soboof Journal Notes from the studio

Think intriangles. Bring in the light. Reach meaning through forms.

All different, all relative.