Sawyer Buckminster Fuller



Art

You're telling me I'm a frog?

2010
24x18
acrylic


Drosophila Wind Waves

2010
Digital video composite of fruit flies flying leftward in gusts of wind.


Drosophila the Dripper

2008
Flight paths of flies captured by a multi-camera fly tracker
1st prize, 2008 Art of Science show
untitled
Marguerite

2001
24x36
compressed charcoal
mom and me
Mom and Me

2001
18x12
charcoal

room 22 Art at TEP
1997-2000

In my undergraduate living group, TEP, hangs a purple Buckminster Fuller-inspired geodesic sphere I made (left).

The German magazine GEO sent a photographer to do a story on MIT who ended up coming by our house to take a few shots. This picture of my room appeared in their pages, showing my radio-controlled car equipped with a wireless camera (ok back then this seemed like a big deal) and my lego robot for 6.270.


front tshirt

back
Logo for MIT 2.007 Robotics Design Course
1998

I submitted this design (left) for the 1998 MIT 2.007 Mechanical Engineering Design Contest. It was chosen, and the front (top), and rear (bottom) designs appeared on shirts given to every participant in the class. Even though I'm right-handed, I thought it looked better to use a left hand for the image. This design was used in subsequent logos for a number of years. Sightings: 2000, 2002, 2003.


rose
doohicky2
The Doohicky

1995
Sawyer Fuller and Kurt Freiler
brass, solder, and the belt drive train from a VCR

A chain continuously lifts balls to the top, where they take a random path to the bottom along small tracks.
moose
Moose

1992
24x36
india ink