Silhouettes

CNC-cut plywood character figures for the Mathemalchemy installation, from first router passes in Edmund's Arkansas workshop to priming, laminating, and painting at the Duke University assembly week.

CNC router carving tall organic figure shapes on a full 4×4 plywood sheet; sea-creature or plant characters plus a human figure outline emerging, the router gantry and blue dust fan visible

Finished CNC-cut plywood skateboarder figure laid flat on a dark table; dreadlocks flowing, skateboard with decorative flower wheels, the full figure cut in a single sheet

Large animal or creature figure on the workshop table; an organic CNC-cut plywood shape surrounded by tools and sawdust, scale suggesting a figure several feet tall

CNC router carving two figures side by side in bas-relief linework; an embracing or dancing couple, the detail of hair and clothing emerging from the plywood sheet

University fabrication lab; a full-length plywood silhouette figure being glued and laminated with many clamps spread across butcher-block tables, the multi-section body clamped into alignment

Edmund Harriss in a metal elevator or goods lift with the fully assembled flute-girl figure; his brown fractal-pattern t-shirt and glasses visible, the flowing plywood hair of the figure reaching above the lift door

A woman collaborator in a white top and lanyard standing beside the assembled flute-girl figure in a Duke University conference room; the Integral Hill contour sections visible on the floor behind

Workshop bench at the Duke assembly week; multiple white-primed plywood silhouette sections, clamps everywhere, a busy collaborative working session

The flute-girl figure fully painted black, laid flat on a table with an open paint can beside her; the elaborate CNC-carved flowing hair and full body now in matte black, ready for installation