An artist just transformed a 400-year-old drawing into colorful 3D-printed sculptures made from corn… 😳 Inspired by Joris Hoefnagel’s watercolor studies of insects and plants, Gracelee Lawrence (gleeleelawlee) used 3D modeling and an array of 3D printers to bring his creatures into the real world. But she didn’t use just any material. Lawrence printed them in PLA, a corn-based bioplastic made from fermented plant starch, connecting the natural with the synthetic - and the grown with the manufactured. “I’m interested in what happens when close observation of the natural world is translated through technologies of scanning and fabrication,” Lawrence says. “Using a corn-based bioplastic brings the material history of the work into the conversation, connecting food, industrial agriculture, technology, and the body.” #OpenCall 🖼️ Joris Hoefnagel, “Plate 51: Grasshoppers and a Caterpillar with a Four O’Clock Flower,” 1575/1590s, watercolor and gold paint on parchment. Gift of Mrs. Less...