NATURE & SPACE
Akemi Nagashiki
2B41D
3D Render
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This is a digital, 3D rendition of my freshman year dorm room. After moving out, I thought about how I would never be able to experience the feeling of being in that room again. So, I memorialized it by recreating it in a 3D model, which captures some of the experience of being in the room better than a 2D image can.
Bloom
3D Render
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In this piece, I used elements of nature with artificial materials, like the chrome hands. I wanted to explore the contrast and coexistence of nature and man-made materials.
Franklin McKenzie
UC Berkeley
Business Administration '22
Instagram: @lots.of.fish
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Sustainable Living Springs Temporarily
Photomontage
6x4.5in
"Sustainable Living Springs Temporarily" examines the allure of embracing corporate ambitions and the tension those ambitions create. The composition captures an Analyst enduring a bodiless Authority’s demand to reverse metrics over which they seem to have little control. The gun’s flotation, emergence from a ceiling of checkered flooring, and cyber-punk comic origin evoke the mechanical, morally abandoned aim of a corporate presence which is at once abstract, opulent, and immediately threatening. The “BE TALLER” text is taken from a crass comic-book advertisement, coloring the Authority’s command as boorish and predatory. The Analyst must flee their normal human boundaries to comply with the directive; their body fades into the office cubicle and their head coarsely geometrifies, an abstractive transformation that will eventually make them kin to the disembodied Authority.
Yuchen Jing
UC Berkeley
Art Practice '22
Instagram: @0710yuchen
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Within the Womb
Acrylic on canvas
46in x 34in
The First Day of School
Acrylic on canvas
Crossroad
Photography
5184 x 3456 px
Ruby Sartain-Miller
UC Berkeley
Psychology, Art Practice '23
Instagram: @rub.bee
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Feeding Cal
3-D Architectural Model
This model includes a aquaculture site and green space that provides community space for students at UC Berkeley, while also providing a resource to tackle food insecurity within the student body. Aquaculture and hydroponics are a sustainable agricultural method that reduce food waste and optimize land usage. The 3-D model I’ve made is a design for an aquaculture site and public green space at Pimentel Hall. This space would be built on top of the existing building, and include a large tank of trout, with rafts that float on the surface where leafy greens can be grown. There is also a small chicken coop on the site and several vertical gardens that can grow plants in soil seasonally. In this design, the fish live in the tank in which the greens can grow. Greens such as lettuce, watercress, kale, cucumber, and several others, can be grown in these rafts, while also filtering the water for the fish. The fish feces serves as a fast-acting fertilizer for the plants as well. Both the fish and the vegetables can be sustainably grown and harvested as food for students, and any waste products (unwanted greens, fish guts etc.) can be fed to the chickens. The chickens of course also produce eggs, which can further supplement the university’s Food Pantry.
