Another design produced at ATC: an eight-metre-tall inflatable tree for the Malaysian singer Fish Leong.
The artist wanted it to look like crumpled paper. A delicate effect to achieve on an inflatable structure, which took a great deal of experimentation before finding a solution that could work under air pressure.
The answer came from costume making, with smocking.
This embroidery and pleating technique consists of gathering fabric with regular stitches to give it elasticity, relief and structure. All that remained was to adapt it to a very large scale to get the right result.
