Art and Science
I'm interested in a variety of media and am always seeking to expand my artistic repertoire. My art uses gouache, watercolor, and acrylic paints; pottery and ceramics, digital drawing, sewing, embroidery, and other textile work, collage, and mixed media.
Microbes in Color series, gouache on watercolor paper, 2022.
Soundbox 5 Festival Project, Feb 2022
Seminarium's latest collaborative art project brought together myself, Vaishnavi Padaki, and Stephen Atkinson to create a collage for Oregon State's 2022 Soundbox Art Festival. The piece represents the transition of the earth from rocky soil and rivers, to grassy foliage, to the tall trees through which sunlight streams to feed the organisms below. The creation of the piece was filmed through timelapse videography and can be watched on my YouTube channel.
Listen to your Gut!
What are the bacteria in your gut trying to tell you? This cute sticker with my original design is available on my RedBubble shop.
Scientific Illustration
Golden chanterelles
King Bolete
Candy cap mushrooms
Amanita muscaria
Colored pencil and ink on water color paper, March 2021
Seminarium at Oregon State
In 2018, I co-founded the Seminarium Art and Science club at Oregon State University, and served as the president until 2022.
"Seminarium is an OSU Student Club dedicated to promoting connections between Arts and Science. We seek collaborative projects between artistic and scientific disciplines and serve as a resource for sharing and learning. We aim to increase and diffuse interdisciplinary knowledge."
Since 2018, we have participated in multiple collaborations with artists and scientists within the OSU and greater Corvallis communities. We are currently working on gaining official student club status, as well as broadening our connections to foster further galleries, projects, and collaborations. You can see past work at our Instagram.
June 2020 Pride Artwork
Textile art inspired by soil microbes, March 2020
Inspired by the gradient colors seen in a Winogradsky column, this shirt was dyed with oranges, purples, browns, and greens to create a similar effect. The pattern was directly inspired by a Winogradsky column I made in July 2019, using water and mud from the Willamette River in Corvallis, OR. The shirt was made using plain muslin and dyed using Rit fabric dye.
Winogradsky columns allow us a glimpse into microbial worlds, in which we can visually see the different communities divided by nutritional and oxygen requirements. Yet the entire community works as a whole, recycling nutrients and supporting the growth of each group.
Black Carbon: An intimate exploration of wildfire, October 2019
This piece was part of a gallery in collaboration with Seminarium and OSU's Art About Agriculture project. The gallery was titled Black Carbon, and explored the transformative yet devastating effects of wildfire on local ecology, agriculture, and economies. The gallery also featured artist Ken Van Rees, a professor and artist.
My piece, Shedding Light, made use of fire itself, in a method called pyrography. I placed brush, leaves, twigs, and other findings onto a piece of heavyweight paper, and lit them on fire, letting the pattern of the materials burn onto the paper. In a few places, the paper burnt through. Behind these holes I later painted scenes representing a wildfire and the process a forest goes through - burning, ash, regrowth.
