Grace Jiang
Hello! What do you find beautiful? What's your current rabbit hole? I want to know.
Trip Reports
Misc Projects
2025
Welding and metalworking to help out the Flaming Lotus Girls on Haven, a 2025 BM sculpture.
Sculpture — learned anatomy and completed a bust from observing a live model.
2021
Rubens Tube — a weekend project. It's a tube of gas (but with high bang to buck of coolness/effort required).
Future ideas:
• Multiple tubes of differing lengths to make standing waves at diff frequencies
• Circular tube
• 2D array of holes inspired by Veritasium video
• Glass tubes
• Somehow trigger release of sodium etc to make colored flames based on frequency
Future ideas:
• Multiple tubes of differing lengths to make standing waves at diff frequencies
• Circular tube
• 2D array of holes inspired by Veritasium video
• Glass tubes
• Somehow trigger release of sodium etc to make colored flames based on frequency
2018
MasSpec Pen — a handheld mass spectrometry tool for rapid tissue analysis.
Wikipedia |
Patent US20250251323A1
2018
Visualizing 2-photon microscopy data in a new way
Lists
Bucket List
- I want to go to the Sawtooth Mountains in Idaho one day.
- I want to hike the JMT.
- I want to summit Shasta (made it to Short Hill in 2026).
- I want to see Iceland, Patagonia, and the Dolomites.
- I want to see a quetzal.
- I want to finish a painting of a loop of ospreys intersecting with a loop of fish, right as the bird grabs its prey.
- I want to design and carve a seal.
- I want to draw something and get it tattooed.
- I want to make a tiny scale model of a gothic cathedral.
- I want to visit Florence and see the Brunelleschi Dome.
- I want to do some of Faraday's experiments.
- I want to make an interferometer.
- I want to do more plein-air with gouache.
- I want to cook something extravagant on a hike.
- I want to see the Perseids again.
- I want to see a total solar eclipse.
- I want to take another photo of Orion's Nebula and compare it to an old photo.
Reading List
Have always loved sci-fi and nonfiction. Currently into memoirs. I try hard not to turn down a book prematurely, as I've always been surprised — but I accept I'll never be able to read everything. I also have a list of short stories I recommend to friends.
- The Martian Chronicles
- Permutation City
- Three-Body Problem
- Anathem
- Sphereland
- Medusa and the Snail