“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 cooking and 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 and sculptures from the Renaissance era. Below are some of my works:
好柿花生（a homophone for “Good Things Are Happening”） Moonlight Soup Dumplings Would you fancy a cup of lemon tea? Umami on Canvas My copy of Kathryn E. Cherry's masterpiece Fish, Fruits, and Flowers
St. Louis art hill on (almost) the top of the rocky mountain, painted based on a picture taken on our hiking trip
the "Thinker" on WashU campus
Gateway Arch
Pumpkin Inception: a product from my department's Halloween pumpkin painting party, which sadly only lasted a little longer than a month :(
My first sculpture: A cartoon version of David (Michelangelo) Delmar Loop in the rain--a glass of dancing tequila sunset Cloud Gate 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.
