This piece explores the notion of the ceramic head vessel. The process of making Vessel Head was intuitive and exploratory.
For my Arts & Animals Timeline Project, I created one miniature painting a week on a hand fan during my multiple three-hour lecture classes.
According to East Asian legends, anyone who folds one thousand origami cranes will be granted eternal happiness. This past year has been an incredibly difficult time due to the pandemic.
My timeline’s main theme is the African American perception and representation of Dante’s The Divine Comedy.
San Francisco and the Divine Comedy: One Faith One Path, is my interpretation of purification in Purgatory.
Despite the rising numbers of modern art that integrates technology, there isn’t a quite an “easy” way for a growing artist to approach that interdisciplinary field.
Leda and the Swan is a classic Greek myth in which Zeus, infatuated with the beautiful Leda, comes down from Mount Olympus in the form of a swan to rape her.
The Outward Localities Collective aims to pay homage to the young soldiers who perished in a distanced war in the South Caucasus region.
This is a grasshopper algorithm that I find very powerful when modeling trees. This algorithm can be used to create trees of custom thickness and density, all within a specific boundary region.
Today, we can look back and reflect upon humanity’s responses to pandemics across history, documented by our great writers and historians.
A counter-perspective to the untitled masthead which adorns the 'Made at Berkeley' exhibit (and the atrium of Soda Hall before it), the photo depicts a first-person view of what many of us passed and never notice
Inspired by W.B. Yeat's piece 'The Second Coming' a poem reflecting on chaos and uncertainty.
A watched pot never boils. This project makes this adage painfully literal. Facial recognition through a camera and OpenCV ensures that viewers are never able to actually observe the pot boiling.
Our friends behind the television screen live in a world we have never been able to visit.
t h e b o d y y o u d r e a m o f I s y o u r o w n is a musical theater piece designed and composed by Trevor Van de Velde as part of his undergraduate honors thesis.
“Melancholia 2020” is my recreation of Albrecht Durer’s 1514 “Melencolia I” engraving, which captures the abstract and mysterious sentiment of melancholy.
This work was for a timeline project where we looked for themes/connections between our own lifetime and what we've studied in the class (Psychologies of Art - Medieval / Early Modern / Renaissance).
artinCOVID is an Instagram account open to art submissions across the world, that responds to people’s experiences in the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Because the sunset, like survival [and memory], exists only on the verge of its own disappearing. To be gorgeous, you must first be seen, but to be seen allows you to be hunted.”
Made from simple natural materials, Nomadic Nostalgia is a modular, multi-use garment adaptable for the personal environment and the changing global environment.