Category: Making

Creative projects and works

  • Gif of Mari standing then kneeling with a fist pumping into the air in front of her panels

    A Haptic Blank

    With the texture of water as inspiration, I created acoustic panels that not only absorb sound, but play sound when touched. 

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  • triptych of watercolors of the spleen in yellow, garlic with its root system, and the cisterna chyli in yellow

    Paintings, 2017

    These works are an exploration in plant and human anatomy. The above watercolor triptych, “Comparing branching Fibonacci structures”, looks at the structural similarities between human organs and garlic. Left: Spleen with Splenic Vein and Artery- recycles red blood cells and stores white blood cells, part of the lymphatic system, which is part of the immune…

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  • a red house with a white framed window. Five signs in the window read: "Breathe.", "This is hard.", "Be kind to yourself." "You are resilient.", and "#RecoveryMovement"

    De-stigmatizing Opioid Addiction

    Between 1999 and 2019, the opioid epidemic killed nearly 841,000 people in the US. Opioids change the physical structure of the brain so that people with Opioid Use Disorder feel like they will die without opioids. People cannot just will themselves out of an addiction. How might we break stigmas so we can support people…

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  • a picture of a woman staring blankly into space, wearing a white shirt with a dark armband that has spikes shooting out of it

    COVID Mourning Armband

    What if we revived the practice of wearing armbands for mourning, to manifest our grief, and to show others that the loss of life is real?

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  • a conical, rattan chandelier with looping fringe sticking out in all directions from the bottom edge of the chandelier

    Learning Basket Making

    For years, I wanted to learn basket making. Then I learned that my great grandfather was the village basket maker. Through a combination of self-led experimentation, reading, and watching videos of artisans working, I have been learning how to weave baskets. In 2019 I wove one basket, and it was from a kit. During the…

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