{"id":12268,"date":"2017-07-04T20:04:05","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T10:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/?p=12268"},"modified":"2018-09-27T16:49:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T06:49:01","slug":"meet-the-creator-kristal-dubois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/meet-the-creator-kristal-dubois\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Creator: Kristal Dubois"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kristal Dubois<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kristal Dubois began building with LEGO as an adult and enjoys creating intricate mechanical models. Kristal is a high school mathematics and chemistry teacher and lives with her partner, Jason, in Ottawa, Canada. Together they are JK Brickworks. In addition to teaching and building with LEGO, Kristal also enjoys rock climbing.<\/p>\n

How did you get started building with LEGO bricks?<\/h4>\n

I actually didn\u2019t play with LEGO at all as a kid. My little brother had some, but he was five years younger than me, and I was way too cool to play with his toys. When I first met my partner, Jason, I had no idea that there were adults that played with LEGO. The first time I saw his LEGO room and the enormous wall of LEGO sets piled in his dining room, I was flabbergasted!<\/p>\n

Eventually we moved in together and I went back to school to get my teaching certificate. During that year, I was pretty set on moving the LEGO out of the dining room, so I slowly started helping Jason part old sets and at some point he had me mass assemble windows for a large building he was making. One weekend, Jason was out at some LEGO event and I had an annoying homework assignment where I needed to recreate an illustration from my favorite children\u2019s book. I realized that I had access to a giant room of LEGO and that homework assignment became my first MOC.<\/p>\n

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The Engineer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Which project (or projects) are you the most proud of? Why?<\/h4>\n

I built a sculpture of a head that I call “The Engineer”. I guess I\u2019m particularly proud of that one, not only because it turned out exactly the way I had envisioned it, but because I learned so much along the way.<\/p>\n

Where do you find inspiration for new projects?<\/h4>\n

Sometimes my projects start as some abstract idea that I want to illustrate. Sometimes I\u2019m inspired by the movements in nature. And sometimes, I\u2019m inspired by a particular mechanism that I\u2019d like to incorporate into a sculpture. For example, before designing my skating penguin, I was playing around with some Technic pieces and thought I had come up with this amazing, novel mechanism. It turns out the mechanism was actually The Trammel of Archimedes and it\u2019s been around for over 2000 years. Still, the mechanism inspired me to create the skating penguin.<\/p>\n