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A suspended fabric halo with matching rigid signage
A hanging halo with stretch fabric graphics and accompanying rigid signage for Taylor and American Standard, dye sublimated on Procura hardware. A suspended ring is one of the least forgiving shapes in exhibition work, because the eye reads a circle far more critically than a rectangle.
What the job demanded
Circles show their errors. A ring assembled from curved segments will look wrong if any single joint is slightly off, because the flat spot reads immediately against the curve either side of it, and a halo hung a degree out of level is obvious the moment someone stands under it. Suspension brings its own constraints: the piece has to be light enough for the rigging points available, distributed so the ring hangs true rather than tilting, and specified to whatever the venue's overhead loading rules allow. Then there is the graphic itself, which is not a flat panel but a band that wraps a circumference, so artwork has to be laid out along a developed length rather than composed in a rectangle. The rigid signage beneath has to match it on a different material.
How it was produced
The halo was built from curved aluminium extrusion in segments joined into a continuous ring, with Procura hardware carrying a silicone edge channel around the band. The graphic was dye sublimated onto stretch polyester: disperse dye is transferred into the fibre under heat and pressure, so the colour lives inside the yarn and the fabric can be pulled hard around a curve without the image distorting in density or cracking. A silicone bead sewn to the perimeter presses into the channel, tensioning the band flat and taking the image right to the frame edge, and the stretch in the knit is what lets a fabric skin sit smoothly on a curve rather than pleating at the tangents. Artwork was set out along the developed circumference. Rigging points were distributed evenly so the ring hangs level.
