My goal was to make three artist books that incorporated laser etching in a more experimental way. I planned to laser-etch several materials, including wood, MDF, paper, wool felt and vellum. I did not have time to run tests on wool and vellum, so I didn’t use those materials. I made three artist’s books and…

Teuhtli Sliced and Stacked

I created an STL of the volcano with Terrinator. It cost 6 pounds but it was worth it. First prototype is MDF and the second is blue acrylic.

Image Tracing/Laser Engraving

I am working with these images for my thesis show. I wanted to see how the detail would pan out with both the dither and threshold options. The dither is on the blue plexi and the threshold is on synthetic felt. The result on plexi is underwhelming, but I think it’s because the original image…

Birth of Coatlicue

I made this by joining a scan I did from an object at the National Museum of Anthropology (snake head) and extruding a cube. I also used the stencil brush two different bump maps) to add texture. It will be printed with resin. Dimensions approx. 6″ by 8″ by 15″? As wide as the printer…