Before turning to steel, Serra produced abstract sculptures from nontraditional materials — fiberglass, rubber or molten lead — which he splashed or
threw in their liquid states against the walls of studios or exhibition spaces, recording their shapes and angles.
At Oakley, Jannard had
thrown himself into the creative engineering process, enlisting technologies such as
liquid laser prototyping and electron - beam gun - vapor deposition
in his quest to make
state - of - the - art sunglasses.