As part of Erasmus international study program, I am studying in Politecnico di Torino now. Just wanted to share with you some works that I made there working in a group.

So the first thing we did was exploring the existing vacuum cleaner, measuring it and then we created a design in AutoCAD. After that the side views and top views of the product were printed in scale 1:1. All technical drawings were put on a foam that layers were glued together.

In the end of February there were design workshops in Polytechnic University of Turin and I chose a textile workshop curated by ArsalitArtes that is a cooperative of arts and crafts.

There was one week workshop with a contemporary artist Gary Baseman in Latvia. I decided to apply for this workshop due to curiosity and had quite interesting time.

I wrote before that I am taking some additional classes to learn how to work with metal. My first assignment was to create a candle holder – you can see the result here. And the next one is to create a shaker for any spice and I chose a pepper shaker. In this post I will write about the first stage – creating models and starting to work with copper sheets.

In January I started to take classes to learn how to handle metal and actually create something from it. And my first project was a simple candle holder made of stainless steel bars.

We have to work a lot with clay in the Academy. And one of the assignments is to create a sculpture of an animal and I chose a baby eagle owl. I have always liked their big eyes, especially those of baby owls.