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Levi Bloch

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By day, I’m a design engineer creating the next iPhone. By night, I create works centered around a moment of interaction. I look for contrasts, such as practical and impractical, sacred and profane, explicit and implicit. My goal is to make people stop and consider the objects they surround themselves with. Everything we touch was lovingly (or loathingly) created by an engineer, a designer, and a slew of factory workers in a 3rd world country. Amidst the material literacy crisis, I want people to rediscover the magic of every day objects through pausing to appreciate each little interaction. In Abrahamic religion, as humanity is created in the image of the creator, each human act of creation embodies the divine. I wanted to create an artwork that packages that idea into something that can, every single day, remind us of that divine power we contain. I 3d printed Adam with his hand outstretched, from the painting Creation of Adam. I applied car repair and finishing techniques to create

Levi Bloch ⇩ Artist Designer Engineer Tinkerer Provocateur What’s My Deal? By day, I’m a design engineer creating the next iPhone. By night, I create works centered around a moment of interaction. I look for contrasts, such as practical and impractical, sacred and profane, explicit and implicit. My goal is to make people stop and consider the objects they surround themselves with. Everything we touch was lovingly (or loathingly) created by an engineer, a designer, and a slew of factory workers in a 3rd world country. Amidst the material literacy crisis, I want people to rediscover the magic of

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