I've been trying to draw more from life now, to get back into that sketching habit that I, truth be told, never really had.

I was much more of a set up in front of a nice landscape and sit there for hours kind of girl. Once I drew a mansion with gel pens and sat in the sun for 6 hours. My dad got sunburnt waiting for me. Another time my family went on a hike around a lake and I sat and painted the lake.

I work in the Rotch library at MIT, and I thought it might be fun to start documenting all the things behind the desk. Not that there's really anything super interesting, but I do sit at that desk for many hours per week, so why not?

This is one of our trusty bar code scanners. Sometimes it fails at its job. We love it anyways.

A photo posted by Cecile Lu (@cissyartcafe) on Mar 8, 2016 at 7:39pm PST