aluminum skin

 

It doesn't get much better than this. What is it about aluminum "skins" that I'm attracted to? The metal needs to feel as though it's shrink-wrapped over a structure/skeleton beneath. Paint ruins it by adding an extra thickness. Polished surface is not nearly as good as satin finish because a polished surface is too reflective. The aluminum actually needs to feel like stretched skin. I'm not certain that you could achieve this any other way than thin aluminum sheet that is formed over a understructure. The cars from this era are what they are (designed objects) because of the curvilinear forms, thin aluminum, and the method in which they were constructed. I need to remember this in future work.