As a creative person, there’s no set path on the kind of work I will jump into. If an opportunity to create rises and I am able to, I will take it; especially if it’s challenging in any way. Here are some fun little projects I worked on recently. Check out more of my work on instagram @sorondo.design
POSING AND PRESERVING A SCORPION
I took a workshop with the incredible artist and taxidermist Mickey Alice Kwapis, at the Harvard Museum of Natural History to pose and preserve a sustainably sourced (and long dead) scorpion! Each student received a rehydrated scorpion laid out flat and we learned how to move it around and hold it up with pins into the desired pose. It was flexible and incredible to see up close . They naturally glow bright green under UV light! Once it was ready I let it dry out over two weeks and put it in a frame to be displayed forever.
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BUILDING AN IGLOO
At some point last winter I felt the urge to enjoy Boston’s cold weather to the fullest and make the most of it. With a ingenious but ultimately ignorant enthusiasm, I attempted to make an igloo with no snow at -10°F and had no success, but lots of fun. Take a look at how that went here.
A few weeks later I was visiting my sister at RIT, New York, and her engineer friends were very enthused about the science behind it, so together we built this monument of an igloo in a 2nd story balcony. It held up one night!
SABRINA SORONDO 