KANAMARI POND

April 2025

Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University

Undergraduate thesis exhibition in the Studio Arts, completed with High Honors.

Series of sculptural pieces including: a pneumatically actuated system driven by wool textile switches in circuit, custom metal machining for supporting pieces, and thermoforming acrylic plexi sheets.

PROCESS

sculpture in-motion: pneumatically actuated silicone & e-textile circuiting

I'm fabricating soft electronic materials by hand for circuiting, designing the mold for the silicone actuators and machining the metal parts to encase and support the system.

This piece was inspired by my contributions to the knitted sensors and textiles research work at Wesleyan University’s Soft Robotics Lab led by Professor Roberts.