Lily Pedano, Interdisciplinary Sculpture, 2025
I am a sculptor working primarily in ceramic, metal, and wood, examining themes of mental health, childhood, and femininity
Project Overview
For this project, I was thinking of the microcosmic vs. microcosmic. There is an uncountable amount of cells in a given spot of Ecoli on a Petri dish, similar to the amount of stars in the sky. I think of bacterial colonies as a little family and began thinking of the familial relationships inherent in horoscopes. My mother gave me my star sign: five little stars in a vast universe.
Process
For this project, I used the ecoli that we genetically modified in the lab to appear white. I then chose to use agar with charcoal in it to look like the night sky. To draw my constellation, I used the bio printer, which took some trial and error. The first print I made failed due to reasons still unknown, but my second print yielded the expected results. I drew inspiration for the print from a bandana that my mother gifted me and placed my print over the cancer constellation.
