“Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are all noble pursuits, and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”
― Dead Poet’s Society

In my free time, I like exploring fashion design and fine art. It was my love for visual art that initially got me into vision science. I'm especially obsessed with oil paintings in the Renaissance era and sculptures. Below are some of my works during grad school:

art hill
My copy of Kathryn E. Cherry's masterpiece Fish, Fruits, and Flowers

art hill
St. Louis art hill

rocky mountain
on (almost) the top of the rocky mountain, painted based on a picture taken on our hiking trip

the thinker
the "Thinker" on WashU campus

Gateway Arch
Gateway Arch

pumpkin inception
pumpkin inception: a product from department Halloween happy hour, which sadly only lasted a little longer than a month :(

David front
David back
My first sculpture: A cartoon version of David (Michelangelo)

Delmar Loop
Delmar Loop in the rain--a glass of dancing tequila

Cloud Gate
Cloud Gate

Bluemont Hall
first snow in 2016 outside Bluemont Hall on K-State campus


Notes:
  • The copyright to the paintings belongs to Xiaojin Ma. Do not copy or distribute without permission of the author.