Shintaro - Art

Office:	MC5433
Email:	sfushida@uwaterloo.ca

Non-planar art

This is a collection of sculptures I've created. I started out crocheting mathsy objects, but have since expanded to other textiles, woodworking, metalworking (both hot and cold), moldmaking+casting, ceramics etc. Many of my more involved artworks typically have a social or interactive component. Hover over photos for a description and click to expand.

<i>Untitled</i>. An image of a stained-glass desk lamp.

<i>Untitled</i>. An image of three slip casts of custom-designed pots with feet.

<i>Untitled</i>. An image of a silver pendant in the shape of an iris.

<i>Untitled</i>. An image of an abstract silver pendant.

<i>Frogbit Network</i>. An image of a modular 3d printed sculpture.

<i>Untitled</i>. An image of four cast chainlinks.

<i>Untitled</i>. An image of a mold and cast set up to make indefinitely long resin chains.

<i>Untitled</i>. Six casts of a paint tube.

<i>Untitled</i>. Three casts of abstract paint tubes, like peeling bananas, or squid.

<i>Untitled</i>. A cast of my feet with interlocking toes.

<i>Shrine to Relationships</i>. A photo of me sneaking out of the piece.

<i>Shrine to Relationships</i>. A front view of the whole piece.

<i>Untitled</i>. A zoomed in view of the joinery involved in the piece.

<i>Untitled</i>. A relief sculpture created by splashing water onto setting plaster, painted yellow.

<i>Untitled</i>. A latch hook rug in which I've reversed the roles of yarn and canvas---the yarn forms the base, and the rug canvas is cut up into pieces which form the rug fibres.

<i>Hyperbolic clock</i>. A hyperbolically quilted working clock. Designed to stretch and abstract our understanding of what a clock is.

<i>Hyperbolic clock</i>. This image depicts the backside of the piece, which shows the clock mechanism and more clearly shows the hyperbolic nature of the clock.

<i>Dimensionality</i>. A piece exploring unexpected dimensions for various materials---such as using canvas one-dimensionally, and using pipes two-dimensionally.

<i>Equip and Merge</i>. A somewhat large sculpture consisting of metal frames and stretched canvas.

<i>Equip and Merge</i>. A photo of audience members engaging with the sculpture at an exhibition.

<i>Untitled</i>. Three drums of increasing abstraction. Designed to explore implied permissions of a space.

<i>Untitled</i>. Photo of people using my headsets to swap their sense of vision.

<i>Flowermountain</i>. A sculpture consisting of about 150 'puzzle pieces' made from kamaboko boards.

<i>Entwined Experience</i>. A sculpture consisting of about 200 kamaboko boards glued onto a sheet of plywood.

<i>California Cake</i>. A sculpture of six pieces of kamaboko on a low table.

<i>Union</i>. Welded steel rod and sheetmetal forming a U shaped fire hydrant.

Five intersecting tetrahedra origami, folded by everyone in my class I taught in Summer 2021.

Giraffe made from packing peanuts and hot glue

A certain view of a crocheted Klein quartic

Rare image of the crocheted Klein quartic still under construction

Coding art?

I wrote a programme for converting grid diagrams of knots/links into artworks in the style of Mondrian. You can generate your own from my github page. Here are two example outputs - namely for the trefoil knot and 6_1 ribbon knot.

Image of a code-generated trefoil knot in the style of Mondrian.

Image of a code-generated 6_1 knot in the style of Mondrian.

Game Development!

I've also written a couple of (demos of) video games using GDScript/Godot. The source files and a playable download link for GravitySnake can be found on my github page. Similarly, files for ConeWorld are on my github page. Finally, they can be played in-browser directly through my website! Play GravitySnake. Play Coneworld.

Planar art

Hover over photos for a description and click to expand.

Fanart for Bucky, a character in the manga Chainsaw Man. Digitally drawn, monochrome lineart.

An impossible triangle of cubes floating in the sky

Map of the tribes and nations of western USA

Shintaro Fushida-Hardy

Non-planar art

Coding art?

Game Development!

Planar art