Psyche Inspired
Learn more about the Psyche Inspired program and view other works
/
Psyche Inspired: Alyssa Thornhill
Institution: Arizona State University
Major: Graphic Information Technology
Psyche Inspired Class: 2020-2021
Space Girl / Looks of psyche
Alyssa Thornhill
Major: Graphic Information Technology
Genre/Medium: face paint, gold lead, scar wax, eyeshadow
About the work: Makeup has always been a creative outlet that I admired, so I wanted to combine both my passion of art, makeup, and space into one. One cannot ignore the beauty of Psyche’s surface, which inspired the grey look with gold leaf. Using the Psyche mission’s color palette, the other look is meant to represent the Greek goddess the asteroid was named after.
Birth of Psyche
Alyssa Thornhill
Major: Graphic Information Technology
Genre/Medium: Adobe Illustrator
About the work: My digital work Birth of Psyche is a vector image I made in Adobe Illustrator. I was inspired by the insight studying Psyche will give us into our own planet. We are getting a deeper understanding of how planets form. I wanted to represent the birth of Psyche and this knew found knowledge through light, which appears through the collision of the two asteroids. Psyche was the goddess of the soul as well, so I wanted to represent her as a spirit by making her more opaque.
