PyscheBot, Roll Out!
Kyra Correa
May 13th, 2024
Major: Illustration
Genre/Medium: 3D Printed Resin, and Acrylic paint
About the work: I’ve an embarrassing confession to make: I really, REALLY enjoy mech media. My first exposure to it was the 2007 Michael Bay “Transformers” movie, which seems to have permanently altered my brain’s chemistry. Over the years, my enjoyment of such titles as “Pacific Rim,” “Neon Genesis Evangelion,” “Gundam,” and more has culminated into this, my love letter to all mechs worldwide. “PsycheBot, Roll Out!” is a fully articulated doll/action figure version of the Psyche satellite, a la “Transformers.” Across her body are almost all of the satellite’s scientific instruments. Her torso is made up of the spacecraft’s bus and features the DSOC transceiver on her lower bust, the twin imagers on her upper left bust, part of the propulsion system on her back, and the solar arrays as wings sprouting from her shoulder blades. She also has boosters on her outer ankles, electrical components on her outer thighs, and the high-gain antenna on her left shoulder. Finally, the booms carrying the magnetometer and gamma ray & neutron spectrometers sit atop her head. Something I enjoy about the boom poles on her head and solar array wings on her back is that they make her look like a butterfly, which references the goddess Psyche! Read more…
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