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
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
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
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
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
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
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]