Hamster, the Hamover Story Pig

Commissioned by Mario to illustrate the story of Hamover.

New "Couch"

I really want a couch but this will have to do for now.

The pillow on top is made from Japanese fabrics people have given me, and the bottom is something I made in high school.
In other news, today I applied for a Visual Arts and Design minor!

Katamari

Naaaaananananananaaanaaaaaaa Katamari Damacy!

Walcott Totoro

Totoro is dying. The fabric is disintegrating. But this picture is awesome!

Credit to Liz for the picture.

I Feel Like it's the Weekend

It was a tough week despite being two days long. Tomorrow is technically a weekday but I put off things that are due tomorrow until...tomorrow. To paint a vanilla-bottle stencil doormat on my floor.

And now, an update on my soft sculpture kit project:          

Build Your Own Soft Protest

I have to present a proposal tomorrow.
I am creating a system of soft building blocks so other people can build their own inhabitable fabric sculptures and leaving the blocks in public spaces. I will leave a to-do list of things you can build or do in what you build, like sleep, have a picnic, build a tower, put on a play, have a conversation with a stranger...and leave a pen so people can add to the list or check off what they have done.
I want to call it a soft protest because it opposes the hard, unchangeable asphalt-and-concrete public landscape.

Bird House

For my public art class I think I want to make a bird that you can go inside of. I'll make a steel frame with room for sandbags at the bottom so it probably won't get stolen, and a fabric cover on the outside, or maybe a fabric-epoxy composite to make it waterproof. The inside will be covered with very soft pillowy fabric sculpture for sitting or sleeping, with secret pictures and objects embedded like jewels in the walls. For one or two people. You have to lift up the wing to get inside.

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I gave a presentation on my previous work today to the graduate art class I got myself into. When I was taking questions, the professor asked me, "how do you do in your mechanical engineering classes?"

I wasn't really sure what to make of that. When he repeated himself, I said I do well.

I ended up later arguing with a (male, engineer) friend who thinks females are genetically less likely to be good engineers, though he says it doesn't apply to me.