For this project I was interested in exploring how to use the transparency of acrylic to make a vessel to hold dye and roots of plants. My practice uses natural dyes from plants and this semester I experimented with creating a dye from the fertilizer coating of Pennington Sun and Shade Grass Seeds. I used…

The first image was traced from a photograph of a flower in Illustrator and then engraved on felt. This image was created in Photoshop and turned into a bitmap with a diffusion dither and then engraved on paper.

First, I began with 3D mesh model of the mushroom. This is not based on a real species, but I was attempting to find a natural form that would lend itself to the slicing process without getting too complicated as to lose its original form. Then, I used Slicer for Fusion 360 to radially slice…