Inverted Normals
April 30 - August 1, 2024
Exhibition Statement
Inverted Normals presented work by students in Digital Fabrication 165, turning Mulberry House Gallery into a focused study of how digital processes become physical form. The exhibition brought together face vessels, sculpted characters, resin dioramas, laser-cut puzzles, and fabricated objects created through modeling, scanning, printing, cutting, and hands-on finishing.
The title points toward the strange productive reversals that happen in digital fabrication. A profile can become a vase, a room can shrink into a resin scene, a hand-drawn image can become an interlocking wooden structure, and a virtual model can return to the world as an object with weight, surface, and scale.
Across the show, students used technology not as a shortcut but as a material process. Their works asked how precision, measurement, scanning, abstraction, and digital repair can still leave room for memory, narrative, humor, and individual intent.
Several assignments shaped the exhibition. The FaceVase project began with photographic profiles and turned measured facial contours into white PLA vessels, emphasizing proportion, identity, and the translation of the body into geometry. The sculpted character works asked students to build figures around meaningful ideas, using digital sculpting, surface treatment, and scale to make personal or social themes visible.
Other works moved through scanning, resin printing, and laser cutting. Diorama miniatures used photogrammetry to reconstruct people and everyday objects at reduced scale, creating scenes where memory and documentation meet. The wooden jigsaw puzzles approached laser cutting as both precision design and abstract drawing, turning image, pattern, negative space, and physical interaction into part of the finished work.
Participating students: Jailena Almonte, Trang Bui, Rita Costa, Brynn Do, Tatum McNally, Amy Nguyen, Ava Peterson, Elsa Pfrenger, Avery Rennick, Anokhi Roy Bhattacharyya, Ethan Tecson, and Tra Vo.
Details
Exhibition information.
- Date
- April 30 - August 1, 2024
- Opening
- Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 5:00-6:00 PM
- Course
- Digital Fabrication 165
- Media
- Digital fabrication, 3D printing, laser cutting, resin, sculpture, and mixed media
- Artists
- Jailena Almonte, Trang Bui, Rita Costa, Brynn Do, Tatum McNally, Amy Nguyen, Ava Peterson, Elsa Pfrenger, Avery Rennick, Anokhi Roy Bhattacharyya, Ethan Tecson, and Tra Vo