For my final project, I am creating an artwork using a 3D printer and a laser cutter. The artwork is a box consisted of four transparent acrylic panels with one opening. One panel has an image carved by a laser cutter. On the opposite panel inside the box, there is a photographic image which the viewers can look through the first image on the surface of the box. Inside the box, there is another image located in the middle aligning with other images. In between two images, there are 3D visual artworks printed by 3D printers. When viewers look into the box, all the images and the 3D objects will overlap with each other creating a final image. The purpose of this work is to visualize an image into three-dimensional space as if one is stretching one plane image to a three-dimensional object. This questions what creates an image and how we perceive an image.

I created the Japanese wood joints using a 3D printer and a laser cutter.