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Capturing    Moments   through    Drawing,   Photography,  
​and Sculpture

After quitting formal art classes in 5th grade, the last art class I took before Spring 2013 was in middle school.  These are just some selections of classwork and related things over the past couple of months. Enjoy!


spring 2014: Sculpture II

 My inspiration for most of my work this semester comes from Sayaka Ganz and Deborah Butterfield-- two artists who are able to create sculptures that look like they're in motion.  To me, branch/wood thickness in sculpture is like line thickness and texture in gesture drawings.  Personal goal: Make sculptures look like they're in constant motion using various materials, like branches and foam.
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Fish 'n' sticks. Addressing motion through sculpture through the use of branches. (Some parts in the picture are really there to help hold the form as the wood dries.)
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Fish, modified and captured from a different angle.
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I learned from the first fish (to the left) that the main branch led to most of the character of the sculpture, and decided to try again.
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A successfully cast bronze octopus! (I don't have an image of what the wax looked like, though.)
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Carlos and Andrew in action, pouring molten bronze
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The fish, complete in a ceramic shell mold! (The mold was made for us by a foundry in Boston because we weren't allowed to melt out the wax or perform the organic burnout at Wellesley.) Unfortunately due to a number of reasons, the piece didn't turn out.
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Some of the other ceramic shell molds ready to be buried in sand for pouring
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Squid made out of hobby airplane foam (after many attempts at bending balsa wood)

Fall 2013: Sculpture I

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One of the first sculptures of a live model (09/13/13)
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Figure modeling in early October (we look at the figure every Friday)
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Sculpture from 10/18/2013
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10/14/13. Not officially part of Sculpture, but I was inspired by this skull-shaped pumpkin at the pumpkin patch and just had to come back and sculpt it (with my handy swiss army knife)

Learning the basics of bronze casting

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Progression of the cube.... (Original cube in background, cube I was much happier with in foreground.) Not only did we have to shape a perfect cube from scratch but we also had to make it possible to be made with a sand mold (no undercuts!) One of my classmates said it reminded her of tetris (That might have been what I was thinking subconsciously since I am working on a tetris-playing robot arm.)
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10/22/13: The sculpture above didn't survive the molding process because the clay had dried out (despite my attempt to cover it in furniture wax). I remade the cube, cast a mold out of plaster a few weeks ago, and today we cleaned the molds, coated them with Murphy's oil soap as a mold release, and created a positive plaster piece that we can now make pretty and eventually use for sand molding.
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Our two instructors pouring molten bronze into my sand mold for my bronze fish
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Cube, fresh out of the sand mold
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Cube, after much grinding and polishing
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Cube @ end of class 12/3
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cube @ end of class 12/3
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Fish after some nice polishing, ready for fins to be welded on.
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Fish, fresh out of the mold

Spring 2013: Drawing I at Wellesley

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Drawing I was my first exposure to drawing since I stopped taking art classes in 7th grade. I forgot how awesome it was to have a release from the engineering/technical worlds! This is my final project, which was a study of people and motion, complete with a final sketch that contrasted the permanence of the inanimate objects as well as the flow of people within the robotics lab that I'm a part of.

Photography: The hobby I've had since I was 6

For more photos, please visit my Flickr collection.
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Playing with mirrors at the AGCO Plant in Jackson, MN 10/8/13
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Trip to the AGCO plant in MN for SCOPE site visit. 10/7/13
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I think I fit the stereotype (of Asians taking pictures of food). But who doesn't love roast duck?
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Singapore's skyline July 10, 2015
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A view of the campsite at Hang En, Third largest cave in the world July 18, 2015
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Watching the Louis Vuitton Cup with the Kiwis San Francisco, July 2013
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Riding the BART July 2013
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Car rally from Paris to Vienna June 2016

Logo/T-shirt Design

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One of the early designs for the new IV Lab logo
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Final, revised design!
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The 2012-2013 IV lab shirt, inspired by Despicable Me.
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The 2013-14 Intelligent Vehicles Lab shirt design, which would not have been possible without the help of Helen and Sophia.
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Random sketches of minions to help the shirt design
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The sketch that became our final design

Misc Works

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Sign I made for my younger "sibb" using an old sprocket, a coathanger, and some EL wire.
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  • Home
  • About Me
  • Post-Olin ('15-Present)
    • Argo AI
    • Carnegie Robotics, LLC (CRL)
    • WPI MS in RoboE >
      • Capstone
      • Robot Dynamics
      • Robot Controls
      • Concepts of SysE
      • Software System Design
      • Ethics
      • ETR 500: Travelers
    • Helping further STEM Education
    • Traveling through Southeast Asia
    • Ocean Alliance: Conservation Tech for Whales
  • Olin
    • WALL-E
    • Senior Year ('13-14) >
      • NREIP Internship at SSC Pacific Unmanned Systems Group
      • A Tetris-Playing Robot Arm
      • Senior Capstone Program in Engineering (SCOPE)
      • Controls
      • Design for Manufacture
      • Research at Olin Summer 2014
      • Computational Robotics
      • Jazz Theory
      • My Experience as a PoE Ninja
    • Junior Year ('12-13) >
      • C-2 Innovations, Inc (C-2i)
      • SnotBot
      • Mechanical Design
      • Archaeology (ANTH 60A)
      • Principles of Engineering
      • Robo 2
      • Making Food From Scratch: A Passionate Pursuit
    • Sophomore Year ('11-12) >
      • My semester at USC
      • SailBot
      • Voith-Schneider Propeller (VSP)
    • Freshman Year ('10-11) >
      • Modeling and Simulation
      • Design Nature
      • Materials Science
      • Real World Measurements
      • FBE
  • Publications
  • Art