This project was difficult. It incorporated new techniques that I had never used before and perhaps did not think I would ever use. I battled with the materials and myself to get it done. While this process proved to be difficult for me I really am happy with the work I produced so I’m mostly…

Its been a while since my last official post due to some unforeseen technological difficulties. Its been a little hard to update a blog post without any visual representation of my art. The pictures seen in this post still will not be up to the standard I would prefer because I have to take them…

Based on my technical abilities and passion for the concept I decided to go with my second concept proposal, the statue with fluorescent lighting. In working on my maquette I decided to test two of the concepts going into this piece: The Sculpting and Florescence I quickly discovered that scale is going to be very…

Concept 1: Light In Music and Motion The creation of a marching tuba (sousaphone) bell cover using a grid of programmable LED’s. These Could either be set up so they react to vibration (sound) or programmed to create different light effects. Concept 2: In The Eyes of Society This piece is intended to be more…

An Artist for the Future Shih Chieh was born in Taiwan. He grew up exploring the bustling life of the street markets around his family home. The lights, life, people, and objects of these street markets eventually became a jumping off point for his art. One of his first sculptures included pumping highlighter ink mixed…