Shrimp Abstraction
Digital Fabrication - 2021
A suspended mobile developed from the study of a shrimp as biological reference. Rather than reproducing the animal literally, the project extracts its defining qualities — segmentation, elongation, and a sense of directed motion — and translates them into a fabricated hanging object.
The design focuses on the shrimp's most recognizable spatial qualities: the long sweeping antennae, the layered body shell, and the tapered tail. These are simplified into a set of laser-cut profiles and layered components.
Cut from cardboard and assembled by hand, the piece is held together by the logic of its own structure. The suspended format emphasizes balance, asymmetry, and lightness — capturing the floating quality of aquatic movement.
