Collection of other artworks, in various forms and mediums

Music video for “Tepat” debut single 

In march of 2024, I filmed, edited and partly directed the music video for a new music group called “Tepat”.
“Tepat” is a neo-soul band from Riga, Latvia,  their first album is expected in early summer of 2024.

I’ve never shot a music video before, so this was new to me. Keeping in mind the production, resources, 
time and preparation, the end result was a pleasant surprise.

”BABY ON BOARD” 

”BABY ON BOARD” was made as an assignment for the academy. The assignment - “off-space” art exhibition, for which
 we had to make installations/sculptures/objects, that should be site- specific and correspond with the space.
I chose my car as the space for the exhibition. I covered the car with stickers, colorful plastic balls, made a custom numberplate, a t-shirt, carpet, etc.
The documentation of this project includes a video, which exaggerates the absurd direction that this work had taken.
On april 29, 2024, this car, in its entirety, was exhibited in the parking of Art academy of Latvia.

Counter-Strike weapon skins

Part of an assignment at the academy - We were encouraged to explore existing structures and find creative ways to break the rules within them.
I’ve been interested in weapon texturing for video games, so I decided that my medium for this project would be counter-strike.
Browsing through existing weapons, I noticed that all of them are made in digital softwares, so I decided to experiment, making textures in a physical way.
I made two weapon skins.  First one was a marker doodle that I drew on a printed UV map. Second one was an oil painting, for which I traced the UV map onto
 the canvas, later correcting the individual UV islands in photoshop, so that they would match the original UV map.
Below is a video, documenting the process.

Mycelium project

For an assignment, in the fall/winter semester of 2023, we had to grow mycelium and make something out of it -  a sculpture/installation/object.
I chose to grow the fungus around a monitor,  so that it forms a frame.
This work also has an audio-visual part.  The screen displays 3d models of various mushrooms, spinning and moving around the screen randomly.
In addition, there is a randomly generated beat, that corresponds with the movements of the mushrooms.  For example, when the hi-hat randomly hit, 
one of the mushrooms moved to a random location. This was made in a software called “pure data”. That semester, we had a guest teacher from Lithuania,
 who held a week-long workshop and taught us about this software and its capabilities.
This work, by sheer luck, was shown in the national TV, as a part of a segment about the exhibitions in the academy.

“Solar power”

”Solar power” is an installation that I made for the spring/summer semester of 2023.
Materials - Iron armature, organic glass, cement, wires, adhesive film.
The armatures are welded together,  organic glass sheets were attached by polycarbonate glue

“Atrasts Latgalē ”

“Atrasts Latgalē ” (from Latvian - found in Latgalia) is a series of “environment pictures”, which was the name given to our assignment.
We had to scan environments, using photogrammetry, then 3D print them.
My work is a series of environments that I scanned in my grandparents out-country territory.

Printed with PLA, glued to MDF boards.
 

“Urban Ignorance”

“Urban Ignorance” is a work that connects an assignment with the end result of a week long workshop about typography.
The assignment was to make a collection of ready-made objects in photoshop.
My theme was urban city environment. In the workshop, I made a poster for this theoretical exhibition.
The title of the poster is the digital version of a typeface that had been used on an ancient gravestone.
Remaking this typeface seemed easier than it was, just to type out these two words proved quite time consuming.

Photoshop, illustrator, spring/summer semester 2023

Logo design for “Tepat”

In march of 2024, “Tepat” were in a desperate need of a logo, so I decided to help out. What started with sketches for fun,
ended up as a refined logo that represents the band. I had never designed a logo before, but the end product turned out quite visually appealing.

Made in illustrator