Won, Interdisciplinary Sculpture, Fall 2025
Wonchul Ryu (류 원철) is a visual artist based in Seoul, Korea, and Baltimore, Maryland. His installation and sculpture excavate concealed psychological spaces within public spaces and mass culture, utilizing everyday materials. He is continuing his artistic career in the BFA program at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Skill Building
A series of technical exercises build and demonstrate skills in Rhino, laser cutting, 3D printing, and CNC routing.
Project I: Rained
This piece reveals loneliness in toilets. I want to visualize emotions within a public restroom, a small private island in public spaces.
Process
I laser cut an acrylic sheet to build an inner transparent structure for the water facet and wrapped it with toilet paper, which I engraved in a poem, “To the Daffodil,” by Chung Ho-seung using laser cut.
Project II: Worship
I wanted to talk about admiring someone. I used PVA to experiment. My goal was to make a water bottle that melts right after it. So it leaks water and finally collapses itself. I wanted to talk about how the failure or struggle of someone who wants to reach the ideal figure.
Process
I 3d printed the bottom part of the water bottle. I put water in the part, but it did not dissolve and did not collapse. Next time, I would like to do an experiment with a thinner layer so that it can be melted.
Project III: Flower Blooms in Cloudy Words.
The title came from the title of the same tile of the book of poetry by Shin Kyu Park (박신규). When I first entered the Dfab as a Ryan tour first-year student, I saw one print Korean poem in the Dfab shop written “우리 서로 사랑하면 언제라도 봄” This is kind of my reply to the print. I wanted to share that cloudy moments turn into something beautiful and alive.
Process
Before we changed our plan to expand the garden, I met with Sarah Doherty and discussed what our class thought about activating the garden and what more things we could consider in the class. Michelle and I take outside-of-class time. We measure the garden and analog and transfer it into a rhino to make a model. After we changed our plan to make a footpath for the garden, I made one of the designs for the footpath and chose 3rd part to mill the mold. After that, we put cement in the mold to cure.
