Doost is our medium, it’s use is strategic in all our work. Inspired by the diamond dust on Andy Warhol’s “Ruby Slippers” (we installed this piece for a billionaires son back in 2004) realizing we needed something similar to capture the reflective qualities of our practice, we got to work. Doost is an extremely retro-reflective fine glass dust, manufactured using a secret process, one that involves high heat, immersion and intense pressure. Doost produces an ostensible color when added to highly vibrant monochromatic colors.
Wanting to reproduce the look of the vintage movie theatre screens, silver paint and glass. It was that screen like quality we were pursuing, a lucid finish fetish, we spent a years in the production phase and finally after a lot of experimentation, headache and research. Doost was born in 2006.
Doost proved to be an answer to our problem, it adhered beautifully to our paint and created just the look we desired. Doost is the finest, reflective non-toxic glass dust in America, measuring in at 46.5 microns, measuring at 1.5 on the refractive index.
Doost creates a solid tight reflection, the surface extends an ostensibly soft inviting glow which subtly moves with ambient and directional light.
We incorporate Doost using a gravity-drop method, since the dust is glass it does naturally age. Doost is used in all our work.