Light curves

Year

2019-2020

Artist

Levi Keatts

University

Virginia Commonwealth Uni

Major

Art Foundation

Title

Light curves

Tags

Asteroid

Medium

wire

yarn

Category

physical 3D

Current Location

Harvey House (5/24-8/24)

Description

My fourth project for Psyche Inspired is a yarn sculpture of the asteroid (16) Psyche. It was inspired by a paper called “Radar Observations and Shape Model of Asteroid (16) Psyche.” In this paper, scientist spoke about how they used the “inversion of light-curves” to develop a topographical map of (16) Psyche. The sculpture is meant to be an artistic interpretation of this.

Artwork Link

https://psyche.asu.edu/gallery/light-curves/