'Solar power' is an installation that I made for the spring/summer semester of 2023. Materials - Iron armature, organic glass, cement, wires, adhesive film. The armatures are welded together, organic glass sheets were attached by polycarbonate glue.
In March of 2024, I filmed, edited, and partly directed the music video for music group 'Tepat' debut single. I had never shot a music video before this and keeping in mind the production, resources, time, and preparation, the end result was okay!
Merch design for Vultura - a Latvian singer, songwriter, and producer. Blender 3D / 2024
Academy assignment - we were encouraged to explore existing structures and find creative ways to break the rules within them. I've been interested in weapon texturing for video games, so I decided that my medium for this project would be Counter-Strike. Browsing through existing weapons, I noticed that all of them are made in digital software, so I decided to experiment, making textures in a physical way. I made two weapon skins. First one was a marker doodle that I drew on a printed UV map. Second one was an oil painting, for which I traced the UV map onto the canvas, later correcting the individual UV islands in Photoshop, so that they would match the original UV map.
Academy assignment. In the fall/winter semester of 2023, we had to grow mycelium and make something out of it - a sculpture / installation / object. I chose to grow the fungus around a monitor, so that it forms a frame. This work also has an audio-visual part. The screen displays 3D models of various mushrooms, spinning and moving around the screen randomly. In addition, there is a randomly generated beat that corresponds with the movements of the mushrooms. For example, when the hi-hat randomly hits, one of the mushrooms moves to a random location. This was made in a software called 'pure data'. That semester, we had a guest teacher from Lithuania who held a week-long workshop and taught us about this software and its capabilities. This work, by sheer luck, was shown on national TV as a part of a segment about the exhibitions in the academy.
'Atrasts Latgalē' (from Latvian - found in Latgalia) is a series of environment pictures, which was the name given to our assignment. We had to scan environments using photogrammetry, then 3D print them. My work is a series of environments that I scanned in my grandparents' out-country territory. Printed with PLA, glued to MDF boards.
