Design Collection

Cows, Slime, Sublime, and Beyond

Cows, Slime, Sublime, and Beyond is a reflection on the repetitive nature of UFO sightings and alien abductions stories over the past 70 years. Saucers, abductions, memory loss, lights, and bananas are story elements that bizarrely form a sense of decades-long continuance through individual experiences with the other kind. The unexpected nexus of these subjects conceives of this unusual, yet mesmerizing collection of sculptures and lamps.

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01 Strange Ships Coming Soon to a Field Near You
01 Strange Ships Coming Soon to a Field Near You

Mixed Media

01 Strange Ships Coming Soon to a Field Near You

A pair of high polished, copper bowls and their matching, vacuum-formed acrylic counterparts, are assembled through a series of sterling silver tabs and internal rivets. The tripod legs of this sculpture were hand fabricated from copper sheet,... More

02 Fasten Your Seatbelts, We're Going on an Adventure!
02 Fasten Your Seatbelts, We're Going on an Adventure!

Mixed Media

02 Fasten Your Seatbelts, We're Going on an Adventure!

The hollow, blue pod in this piece was created by slush casting tinted resin in a mould of the same form. A small window was then cut out to accommodate the yellow resin. The yellow acrylic sheet in the centre is heat formed over a series of... More

03 Excuse Me Sir, There is a Floating Crystal of Light Above your House
03 Excuse Me Sir, There is a Floating Crystal of Light Above your House

Mixed Media

03 Excuse Me Sir, There is a Floating Crystal of Light Above your House

The body of this lamp is made by joining angled panels of MDF (painted), with neon orange acrylic, and finishing off with expandable foam details. The two orange undulating pieces are custom cast resin forms from a mould created uniquely for... More

04 S.S. Banana Express: Next Stop, Pound Town
04 S.S. Banana Express: Next Stop, Pound Town

Mixed Media

04 S.S. Banana Express: Next Stop, Pound Town

Slush casting multiple colours of resin into a banana mould has created the smooth, gradated colours seen on each fruit. The bananas are contoured with custom fitting, high polish copper and sterling silver accents. The structure then ascends... More

05 Something O'Clock (Featuring a Beautiful Girl Gang of Cows)
05 Something O'Clock (Featuring a Beautiful Girl Gang of Cows)

Mixed Media

05 Something O'Clock (Featuring a Beautiful Girl Gang of Cows)

A functioning, clock mechanism inserted into a cast, tri-coloured back plate. The hands of the clock are cut from sterling silver sheet and inserted into the arm sockets. On the left of this piece hangs a set of fully closed, hollow copper... More

06 A Normal Lamp for all the Heathens and Non-Believers
06 A Normal Lamp for all the Heathens and Non-Believers

Mixed Media

06 A Normal Lamp for all the Heathens and Non-Believers

The body of this lamp is a hand-shaped, hollow MDF box. Layers of spray paint and varnish create a professional, lacqueur-like finish, with expandable foam details. The form of the lampshade was created by hand carving a block of blue foam,... More

07 The Truth is Out There but You Refuse to Look. Ugh!
07 The Truth is Out There but You Refuse to Look. Ugh!

Mixed Media

07 The Truth is Out There but You Refuse to Look. Ugh!

The body of this lamp is a hand-shaped, hollow MDF box. Layers of spray paint and varnish create a professional, lacqueur-like finish, with expandable foam details. The form of the lampshade was created by hand carving a block of blue foam,... More

Work by

Aleena Derohanian

Mixed Media

“One of my favourite parts of having been an OCAD U student was the access to many different fabrication studios. This thesis collection is dedicated to showcasing the love I have for mixed media...” [More]