UV Cure For the final assignment, I present my nail study. Nail Study is my research for the work titled “Ornamentalism”. In this work, I focus on the nail industry in the U.S, specifically the Vietnamese nail technicians. Today, the U.S nail industry is estimated around 8 billion dollar revenue yearly and more than half…
Author: Minh Le
Laser engraving/Image tracing on wood and plexi
For etching, I use 3 images of Frank. Those images were taken with Frank in the extreme shadows of darkness and lightness, almost to the point of black and white photos (they are not). I want to see how the this technique turns out with these type of shadows and how abstract it will be….
The Stacked/Sliced Standing Lady
Let’s see if she stands! Yes she does! The original size of this figure is about 6″H and here I enlarge the figure to about 17″H. With a little bit of patient to assemble and wood glue, she stands strongly.
The 3D Nail Project
I am working on creating a set of very long nail. In the 1st try, I printed the nails by the 3D printer but it didn’t work. In the set of five nails, there was only 1 nail came out decently as you can see in the picture. It’s length is 6 inches. In the…