Hand-folded Brass 11”x11”

Using principles of reflection, a parametric algorithm aids in the calculation of the curves which were then laser laser cut to allow the brass to be hand folded into it’s final form.

Made at OtherLab in San Francisco

12” x 12”

Using principles of reflection, a parametric algorithm aids in the calculation of the curves which were then laser laser cut to allow the steel to be hand folded into it’s final form.

Made at OtherLab in San Francisco.

24” x 24”

Created during an artist residency with Autodesk at Pier 9 in San Francisco.

This piece is one in an explorative series of metal sculptures that expands upon the metastructures of origami. With the help of computational tools and digital fabrication, the structural premise of origami lends itself to new avenues of complexity and expressiveness. Harnessing the custom software’s as tools for visual simulations enabled us to integrate the  elements of generative design and increasingly diverse parametric form to that of an artistic vision. 

Our intent was to find the right balance between digital fabrication and the human touch; between the the laser cut form and the final hand folding and finishing of the piece. 

With this piece, we chose a bump map converted from a scan within the Himalayan mountain range as a starting point: the ultimate goal was to distort and manipulate the final forms to evoke and step into unfamiliar and unexplored terrains.

The sculpture is a single folded sheet of  0.25’’ steel on a frame, the standing dimension is 3’x2’x6’’.

Created during an artist residency with Autodesk at Pier 9 in San Francisco.

The grand Bhishma loved by all and the greatest of  warriors, fallen in battle, lying on the bed of arrows pierced through his body,  is a classic image from the ancient  Indian epic - the Mahabharata. The Mahabharata captures the soul and thought and that which was true to the life or real to the creative imagination and ideal mind of ancient India. It remains however also characteristic and illuminative of the social, ethical, political and religious culture of India today. 

The characters in the epic are cherished and living truths and over the millennia the story has served as a means of vivifying the philosophical ideas of the Upanishads and the Vedas and sometimes even to give new development to those ideas as with the Gita - all these are interwoven into the epic narrative with remarkable skill and closeness. The epic in itself unravels its complex idea both wide and universal in volume and striking and vivid in detail in an exploration of the Indian idea of Dharma, or the law of being.

Bhishma: Folded Steel 4’ x 3’ x 2’

Created during an artist residency with Autodesk at Pier 9 in San Francisco.

This piece is one in an explorative series of metal sculptures that expands upon the metastructures of origami. With the help of computational tools and digital fabrication, the structural premise of origami lends itself to new avenues of complexity and expressiveness. Harnessing the software’s tools for visual simulations enabled us to integrate the elements of generative design and increasingly diverse parametric form to that of an artistic vision. Our intent was to find the right balance between digital fabrication and the human touch; between the the laser cut form and the final hand folding and finishing of the piece. For this piece, we joined two forms in a helix.

The sculpture is composed of two folded sheets of  0.25’’ steel, the standing dimension is 2’x1’x1’.

Created during an artist residency with Autodesk at Pier 9 in San Francisco.

Using principles of reflection, a parametric algorithm aids in the calculation of the curves which were then laser laser cut to allow the steel to be hand folded into it’s final form.

States of Mind: Instinct, Reason, Intuition 5’ x 3’