Lily Pedano, Interdisciplinary Sculpture, ’25
Lily Pedano is a sculptural artist born in Wilmington, Delaware currently living and studying in Baltimore, Maryland at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She creates work mainly from ceramic, wood, and metal. Through her sculptures, she explores themes of the human body, mental health, childhood, and memory.
Skill Building
A series of technical exercises build and demonstrate skills in Rhino, laser cutting, 3D printing, and CNC routing.
Project I: My Moon
My Moon, made out of laser cut acrylic and vellum, is about phases of life and nature. I think a lot about the phases of the moon and how they translate into our every day. We are constantly going through changes and moving through different phases of life, mirroring natural cycles.
Process
For this project, I modeled the lantern as a 3D object in Rhino which I then unrolled. I laser cut the two faces of the moon out of acrylic and the sides out of vellum. I also laser cut smaller crescent rings from acrylic which I chemically welded to the moon faces that had slots for the acrylic support bars to attach the two faces. After attaching all of the acrylic, I wrapped and glued the vellum to the sides of the crescent rings.
Project II: Balancing Act
Fabricated from PLA, metal, and a found flower, Balancing Act holds space for discourse surrounding prescription medication. It is about the growth that can result from being on the correct medication, but simultaneously the crushing weight that comes from having to take a pill every day to function.
Process
I started this project by modelling a pill bottle from life into Rhino. I then scaled it up and removed the top before 3D printing. Next, I heated up the PLA with a heat gun until I was able to compress the bottle. I made the stand for the flower by cold bending metal and the claw with 3D printing.
Project III: Concrete Doodle
This piece is designed after a doodle I have been drawing for many years. I start with one squiggle and then build the design from that single line. I am interested in the idea of taking something viewed as disposable such as a doodle and making it literally concrete.
Research
Digital Fabrication in Prosthetics presentation
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